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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 2 9 15
A Test of the Unraveling Hypothesis: Constitutional Bargaining and the Quality of African Institutions 0 0 0 18 0 0 11 73
Constitutional Bargaining, Eminent Domain, and the Quality of Contemporary African Institutions: A Test of the Incremental Reform Hypothesis 0 0 0 29 3 5 17 76
Coping with unpleasant surprises in a complex world: Is rational choice possible in a world with positive information costs? 0 0 1 52 0 0 5 139
Democracy in America: Labor Mobility, Ideology, and Constitutional Reform 1 1 1 61 4 7 14 222
On the Evolution of Organizational Governance: Divided Governance and Survival in the Long Run 0 0 0 6 1 1 2 54
On the Evolution of Organizational Government 0 0 0 41 2 2 8 107
On the Inevitability of Divided Government and Improbability of a Complete Separation of Powers 0 0 0 10 2 2 8 50
On the Political Economy of Privacy: Information Sharing between Friends and Foes 0 0 0 17 2 2 6 45
Return to Rio: Agency problems and the political economy of environmental treaties 0 0 0 5 1 1 10 40
The Contractarian Constitutional Political Economy of James Buchanan 0 0 2 92 1 2 24 92
The Logic of Collective Action and Beyond 0 0 3 63 2 3 23 140
Toward a Rule-Based Model of Human Choice: On the Nature of Homo Constitutionalus 0 0 0 1 0 1 8 14
Total Working Papers 1 1 7 395 19 28 145 1,067


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A Theory of Menu Federalism: Decentralization by Political Agreement 0 0 0 25 2 2 12 132
A model of asymmetric bureaucratic inertia and bias 0 0 0 10 1 1 10 59
A short history of constitutional liberalism in America 0 0 1 17 2 2 17 81
A test of the institutionally-induced equilibrium hypothesis: on the limited fiscal impact of two celebrity governors 0 0 0 3 0 0 14 42
America’s neglected debt to the Dutch, an institutional perspective 0 0 0 28 3 4 9 152
An Overview of the Contractarian Public Finance of James Buchanan 0 0 0 3 2 3 8 20
Behavioral economics and the Virginia school of political economy: overlaps and complementarities 0 0 1 6 2 3 13 41
Campaign finances and political platforms: The economics of political controversy 0 0 0 7 0 0 10 41
Committees and rent-seeking effort 0 0 0 50 1 1 8 126
Constitutional Political Economy and the Nature and Effects of Rights 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 4
Constitutional bargaining and the quality of contemporary African institutions: a test of the incremental reform hypothesis 0 0 0 8 1 1 9 29
Dennis C. Mueller: Reason, religion, and liberal democracy 0 0 0 12 2 2 7 63
Economic Conditions and National Elections, Post-Sample Forecasts of the Kramer Equations 0 0 0 0 2 2 15 27
Economic Development and Democracy. Does Industrialization Lead to Universal Suffrage? 0 0 0 0 4 5 20 864
Efficient mercantilism? Revenue-maximizing monopoly policies as Ramsey taxation 0 1 3 48 2 4 18 395
Efficient status seeking: Externalities, and the evolution of status games 0 0 1 229 3 6 12 455
Elinor Ostrom, Understanding Institutional Diversity 0 0 1 147 3 4 29 437
Ethics and good governance 0 0 3 22 2 11 32 149
Evaluating rent-seeking losses: Do the welfare gains of lobbyists count? 0 0 0 8 0 0 10 35
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 12
Fiscal Bargaining and the Implicit Fiscal Constitutions of Liberal Democracies: A Public Choice Perspective 0 0 1 4 6 7 24 40
From royal to parliamentary rule without revolution: The economics of constitutional exchange within divided governments 0 0 1 32 4 5 17 116
Gordon Tullock’s implicit analytical history of government 0 0 0 2 0 0 8 39
Governance by true believers: supreme duties with and without totalitarianism 0 0 0 5 3 4 18 51
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 2 11 17
Growing up with The Calculus of Consent 0 0 0 4 0 1 6 31
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 1 15 106
Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society 0 0 0 57 1 2 12 276
In Defense of Ignorance: On the Significance of a Neglected Form of Incomplete Information 0 0 0 24 3 3 7 159
Information, Special Interests, and Single-Issue Voting 0 0 0 0 2 2 8 262
Informational limits to democratic public policy: The jury theorem, yardstick competition, and ignorance 0 0 0 36 0 1 11 132
Intellectual foundations of public choice, the forest from the trees 0 0 0 10 0 0 21 58
International Public Goods and Agency Problems in Treaty Organizations 0 0 0 10 0 0 11 60
Is it all about competence? The human capital of U.S. presidents and economic performance 0 0 2 41 2 3 17 180
Monitoring Rent-Seeking Managers: Advantages of Diffuse Ownership 0 0 0 27 1 1 3 282
Mutual Advantages of Coercion and Exit within Private Clubs and Treaty Organizations: Towards a Logic of Voluntary Association 0 0 0 13 1 1 13 112
Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting: The potential for public choice 0 0 0 36 1 2 12 154
Non-global social contracts: A note on inefficient social institutions 0 0 0 1 2 2 12 22
On the Durability of King and Council: The Continuum Between Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 11 1 2 5 62
On the Feasibility of a Liberal Welfare State: Agency and Exit Costs in Income Security Clubs 0 0 0 33 1 8 11 132
On the Political Economy of State Highway Expenditures: Some Evidence of the Relative Performance of Alternative Public Choice Models 0 0 0 0 1 4 8 274
On the codetermination of tax-financed medical R&D and healthcare expenditures: Models and evidence 0 0 0 3 4 4 11 40
On the editorial transition 0 0 0 15 1 1 3 49
On the emergence of a classic work: a short history of the impact of Gordon Tullock’s Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft 1 2 2 19 1 2 17 121
On the inevitability of divided government and improbability of a complete separation of powers 0 0 0 5 2 2 10 67
On the political economy and limits of crisis insurance: the case of the 2008–11 bailouts 0 0 0 15 1 1 10 66
On the political economy of the financial crisis and bailout of 2008–2009 0 0 0 130 2 3 11 417
On the rationality of mutually immiserating coercion 0 0 0 58 2 2 5 187
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 4 4 10 39
Optimal taxation for democracies with less than perfect voters: A public choice perspective 0 0 1 1 2 2 11 17
Political Deadlocks and Distributional Information: The Value of the Veil 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 121
Political Efficiency and Equal Protection of the Law 0 0 0 1 1 1 8 242
Political Institutions and Pollution Control 0 1 4 503 2 3 18 1,390
Proportional and progressive income taxation with utility-maximizing governments 0 1 1 11 2 3 8 43
Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion 0 0 1 74 3 4 22 416
Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion 0 0 1 49 1 1 26 185
Rationality, Morality, and Exit 0 0 0 14 3 4 11 51
Readership and citations as alternative measures of impact 0 0 0 1 0 1 12 43
Rent-seeking aspects of political advertising 0 0 0 5 2 3 10 41
Risk-Averse Taxpayers and the Allocation of Tax Enforcement Effort: Law Enforcement or Leviathan? Some Empirical Evidence 0 0 0 6 1 1 7 39
Robert D. Tollison and the economics of politics 0 0 0 2 3 3 13 44
Thanks to Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 3 2 2 8 28
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 1 127 1 2 14 387
The Electoral Politics and the Evolution of Complex Healthcare Systems 0 0 0 7 4 5 12 128
The Growth of Social Security: Electoral Push or Political Pull? 0 0 0 0 3 3 7 262
The Incumbency Dilemma and Rent Extraction by Legislators 0 0 0 0 2 3 14 193
The Logic of Collective Action and beyond 0 0 3 24 4 5 60 181
The Political Economy of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 49 0 0 6 337
The constitutional political economy of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 8 0 0 5 46
The contractarian constitutional political economy of James Buchanan 0 0 0 7 4 4 28 95
The economic role of a work ethic 0 0 1 173 2 2 11 491
The institutions of international treaty organizations as evidence for social contract theory 0 0 0 2 13 14 23 90
The rise of the modern welfare state, ideology, institutions and income security: analysis and evidence 0 0 0 35 1 2 7 145
The stability inducing propensities of very unstable coalitions: avoiding the downward spiral of majoritarian rent-seeking 0 0 0 16 2 2 7 101
The story of Katrina: New Orleans and the political economy of catastrophe 0 0 0 132 1 1 12 533
Thoughts on Daniel Shapiro's “Is the welfare state justified?” 0 0 0 30 3 4 9 134
Voter Discernment and Candidate Entry in Pluralitarian Election 0 0 0 9 2 2 14 116
Why local governments do not maximize profits: on the value added by the representative institutions of town and city governance 0 0 0 13 1 1 7 73
Total Journal Articles 1 5 29 2,542 147 202 993 12,687


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Perfecting Parliament 0 0 0 0 5 5 8 62
Politics by Principle, Not Interest 0 0 0 0 2 2 11 64
Politics by Principle, Not Interest 0 0 0 0 2 3 10 77
Total Books 0 0 0 0 9 10 29 203
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Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Asymmetric Federalism and the Political Economy of Decentralization 1 1 4 70 1 2 12 172
Commitees and rent-seeking effort 0 0 0 0 2 15 19 21
Competitive Process, Competitive Waste, and Institutions 0 0 2 2 1 10 22 28
Early Spanish liberalism and constitutional political economy: the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 0 0 0 8 2 2 11 80
Efficient Status Seeking: Externalities, and the Evolution of Status Games 0 0 0 0 1 2 11 15
Federalism and tax-financed healthcare: economic advantages, dilemmas, and solutions 0 1 2 7 2 3 8 18
Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview 0 0 2 3 3 26 47 61
Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview 0 0 0 0 1 2 11 29
Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society 0 0 0 0 3 3 10 14
Informational Limits to Public Policy: Ignorance and the Jury Theorem 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 14
Monitoring rent-seeking managers: advantages of diffuse ownership 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5
On Some Neglected, But Profound, Contributions of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 0 2 3 11 13
Public choice and the modern welfare state 0 0 0 40 19 21 26 122
Rent-seeking aspects of political advertising 0 0 0 0 3 4 15 17
The Political Economy of Crisis Management: Surprise, Urgency, and Mistakes in Political Decision Making 0 0 1 5 1 2 9 19
The politics of government growth 0 0 0 4 1 1 4 24
Total Chapters 1 2 11 139 44 99 226 652


Statistics updated 2026-11-12