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A Test of the Institutionally Induced Equilibrium Hypothesis: On the Limited Fiscal Impact of Two Celebrity Governors 0 0 0 0 1 4 5 11
A Test of the Unraveling Hypothesis: Constitutional Bargaining and the Quality of African Institutions 0 0 0 18 1 6 7 69
Constitutional Bargaining, Eminent Domain, and the Quality of Contemporary African Institutions: A Test of the Incremental Reform Hypothesis 0 0 0 29 0 6 7 65
Coping with unpleasant surprises in a complex world: Is rational choice possible in a world with positive information costs? 0 0 1 52 0 2 3 137
Democracy in America: Labor Mobility, Ideology, and Constitutional Reform 0 0 0 60 2 5 6 213
On the Evolution of Organizational Governance: Divided Governance and Survival in the Long Run 0 0 0 6 0 1 4 53
On the Evolution of Organizational Government 0 0 0 41 2 3 4 103
On the Inevitability of Divided Government and Improbability of a Complete Separation of Powers 0 0 0 10 1 4 5 46
On the Political Economy of Privacy: Information Sharing between Friends and Foes 0 0 0 17 1 4 4 43
Return to Rio: Agency problems and the political economy of environmental treaties 0 0 0 5 0 5 7 37
The Contractarian Constitutional Political Economy of James Buchanan 1 1 2 92 2 8 11 77
The Logic of Collective Action and Beyond 1 2 2 62 1 7 11 126
Toward a Rule-Based Model of Human Choice: On the Nature of Homo Constitutionalus 0 0 0 1 1 5 6 11
Total Working Papers 2 3 5 393 12 60 80 991


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Theory of Menu Federalism: Decentralization by Political Agreement 0 0 0 25 0 6 9 126
A model of asymmetric bureaucratic inertia and bias 0 0 0 10 0 7 9 56
A short history of constitutional liberalism in America 0 0 1 16 1 7 9 72
A test of the institutionally-induced equilibrium hypothesis: on the limited fiscal impact of two celebrity governors 0 0 0 3 3 9 11 38
America’s neglected debt to the Dutch, an institutional perspective 0 0 0 28 0 1 2 144
An Overview of the Contractarian Public Finance of James Buchanan 0 0 1 3 1 2 4 14
Behavioral economics and the Virginia school of political economy: overlaps and complementarities 0 0 0 5 0 3 9 33
Campaign finances and political platforms: The economics of political controversy 0 0 0 7 0 6 10 38
Committees and rent-seeking effort 0 0 1 50 2 5 7 123
Constitutional Political Economy and the Nature and Effects of Rights 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
Constitutional bargaining and the quality of contemporary African institutions: a test of the incremental reform hypothesis 0 0 0 8 1 5 5 25
Dennis C. Mueller: Reason, religion, and liberal democracy 0 0 0 12 0 1 2 58
Economic Conditions and National Elections, Post-Sample Forecasts of the Kramer Equations 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 16
Economic Development and Democracy. Does Industrialization Lead to Universal Suffrage? 0 0 0 0 0 11 13 855
Efficient mercantilism? Revenue-maximizing monopoly policies as Ramsey taxation 1 1 1 46 2 8 12 386
Efficient status seeking: Externalities, and the evolution of status games 0 0 1 229 0 3 4 447
Elinor Ostrom, Understanding Institutional Diversity 0 0 0 146 0 7 12 418
Ethics and good governance 1 2 3 22 5 14 21 133
Evaluating rent-seeking losses: Do the welfare gains of lobbyists count? 0 0 0 8 0 4 5 29
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life 0 0 0 0 3 6 6 8
Fiscal Bargaining and the Implicit Fiscal Constitutions of Liberal Democracies: A Public Choice Perspective 0 0 0 3 3 9 9 25
From royal to parliamentary rule without revolution: The economics of constitutional exchange within divided governments 0 0 1 31 0 5 8 104
Gordon Tullock’s implicit analytical history of government 0 0 0 2 1 6 7 37
Governance by true believers: supreme duties with and without totalitarianism 0 0 0 5 0 5 8 38
Grounding multidisciplinary public policy analysis in methodological individualism: with an illustrating study of the economic and political effects of variations in a nation’s average work ethic 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 10
Growing up with The Calculus of Consent 0 0 0 4 0 2 4 27
Help, harm or avoid? On the personal advantage of dispositions to cooperate and punish in multilateral PD games with exit 0 0 0 22 1 8 14 101
Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society 0 0 0 57 2 7 10 271
In Defense of Ignorance: On the Significance of a Neglected Form of Incomplete Information 0 0 1 24 1 4 7 156
Information, Special Interests, and Single-Issue Voting 0 0 0 0 0 4 8 258
Informational limits to democratic public policy: The jury theorem, yardstick competition, and ignorance 0 0 0 36 0 4 6 127
Intellectual foundations of public choice, the forest from the trees 0 0 0 10 1 12 15 51
International Public Goods and Agency Problems in Treaty Organizations 0 0 0 10 1 3 7 55
Is it all about competence? The human capital of U.S. presidents and economic performance 0 0 2 39 1 6 10 170
Monitoring Rent-Seeking Managers: Advantages of Diffuse Ownership 0 0 0 27 0 0 0 279
Mutual Advantages of Coercion and Exit within Private Clubs and Treaty Organizations: Towards a Logic of Voluntary Association 0 0 0 13 2 7 10 107
Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting: The potential for public choice 0 0 0 36 0 4 6 148
Non-global social contracts: A note on inefficient social institutions 0 0 0 1 1 8 10 19
On the Durability of King and Council: The Continuum Between Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 11 0 0 2 57
On the Feasibility of a Liberal Welfare State: Agency and Exit Costs in Income Security Clubs 0 0 0 33 0 2 2 123
On the Political Economy of State Highway Expenditures: Some Evidence of the Relative Performance of Alternative Public Choice Models 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 270
On the codetermination of tax-financed medical R&D and healthcare expenditures: Models and evidence 0 0 0 3 0 3 7 35
On the editorial transition 0 0 0 15 0 1 2 47
On the emergence of a classic work: a short history of the impact of Gordon Tullock’s Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft 0 0 0 17 0 8 12 113
On the inevitability of divided government and improbability of a complete separation of powers 0 0 0 5 1 4 6 62
On the political economy and limits of crisis insurance: the case of the 2008–11 bailouts 0 0 0 15 0 4 5 61
On the political economy of the financial crisis and bailout of 2008–2009 0 0 1 130 0 3 9 410
On the rationality of mutually immiserating coercion 0 0 0 58 0 2 4 184
On the stability of U.S. politics: post-sample forecasts and refinements of the Congleton–Shughart models of Social Security and Medicare benefit levels 0 0 0 4 0 2 6 31
Optimal taxation for democracies with less than perfect voters: A public choice perspective 1 1 1 1 1 3 6 11
Political Deadlocks and Distributional Information: The Value of the Veil 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 116
Political Efficiency and Equal Protection of the Law 0 0 0 1 0 4 5 239
Political Institutions and Pollution Control 2 2 2 501 3 6 12 1,378
Proportional and progressive income taxation with utility-maximizing governments 0 0 1 10 0 3 6 38
Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion 0 0 2 74 2 8 16 403
Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion 0 1 1 49 2 14 21 178
Rationality, Morality, and Exit 0 0 1 14 0 4 7 44
Readership and citations as alternative measures of impact 0 0 0 1 3 5 8 37
Rent-seeking aspects of political advertising 0 0 1 5 1 5 10 37
Risk-Averse Taxpayers and the Allocation of Tax Enforcement Effort: Law Enforcement or Leviathan? Some Empirical Evidence 0 0 0 6 0 2 4 34
Robert D. Tollison and the economics of politics 0 0 0 2 0 6 12 38
Thanks to Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 3 0 5 6 25
The Dark Side of the Force: Economic Foundations of Conflict Theory, by Hirshleifer, J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 366 pp., USD 90|GBP 60 (cloth); USD 29.95|GBP 20.95 (paper) 0 0 2 126 0 4 11 378
The Electoral Politics and the Evolution of Complex Healthcare Systems 0 0 0 7 1 2 5 118
The Growth of Social Security: Electoral Push or Political Pull? 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 257
The Incumbency Dilemma and Rent Extraction by Legislators 0 0 0 0 1 6 12 185
The Logic of Collective Action and beyond 0 1 3 23 6 25 40 151
The Political Economy of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 49 0 2 3 334
The constitutional political economy of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 8 0 3 4 44
The contractarian constitutional political economy of James Buchanan 0 0 0 7 1 17 26 89
The economic role of a work ethic 0 0 0 172 0 5 7 487
The institutions of international treaty organizations as evidence for social contract theory 0 0 0 2 0 5 9 73
The rise of the modern welfare state, ideology, institutions and income security: analysis and evidence 0 0 0 35 0 4 10 143
The stability inducing propensities of very unstable coalitions: avoiding the downward spiral of majoritarian rent-seeking 0 0 0 16 0 4 6 98
The story of Katrina: New Orleans and the political economy of catastrophe 0 0 1 132 3 9 11 530
Thoughts on Daniel Shapiro's “Is the welfare state justified?” 0 0 1 30 0 1 3 127
Voter Discernment and Candidate Entry in Pluralitarian Election 0 0 0 9 2 9 12 112
Why local governments do not maximize profits: on the value added by the representative institutions of town and city governance 0 0 0 13 0 3 5 69
Total Journal Articles 5 8 29 2,525 64 406 647 12,169


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Perfecting Parliament 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 57
Perfecting Parliament 0 0 0 0 0 5 8 49
Politics by Principle, Not Interest 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 70
Politics by Principle, Not Interest 0 0 0 0 1 7 11 62
Total Books 0 0 0 0 1 17 28 238


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Asymmetric Federalism and the Political Economy of Decentralization 0 0 3 67 0 5 10 166
Commitees and rent-seeking effort 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 5
Competitive Process, Competitive Waste, and Institutions 0 1 1 1 1 6 11 13
Early Spanish liberalism and constitutional political economy: the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 0 0 0 8 0 3 5 72
Efficient Status Seeking: Externalities, and the Evolution of Status Games 0 0 0 0 0 6 9 11
Federalism and tax-financed healthcare: economic advantages, dilemmas, and solutions 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 11
Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview 0 0 0 1 2 9 14 25
Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview 0 0 0 0 1 5 13 24
Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 8
Informational Limits to Public Policy: Ignorance and the Jury Theorem 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 9
Monitoring rent-seeking managers: advantages of diffuse ownership 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 4
On Some Neglected, But Profound, Contributions of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 0 1 5 6 8
Public choice and the modern welfare state 0 0 1 40 0 1 3 97
Rent-seeking aspects of political advertising 0 0 0 0 2 7 8 10
The Political Economy of Crisis Management: Surprise, Urgency, and Mistakes in Political Decision Making 0 0 3 4 3 4 9 15
The politics of government growth 0 0 0 4 0 2 5 23
Total Chapters 0 1 8 130 10 63 110 501


Statistics updated 2026-03-04