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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 3 7 13
A Test of the Unraveling Hypothesis: Constitutional Bargaining and the Quality of African Institutions 0 0 0 18 2 4 10 72
Constitutional Bargaining, Eminent Domain, and the Quality of Contemporary African Institutions: A Test of the Incremental Reform Hypothesis 0 0 0 29 2 3 10 68
Coping with unpleasant surprises in a complex world: Is rational choice possible in a world with positive information costs? 0 0 1 52 1 2 5 139
Democracy in America: Labor Mobility, Ideology, and Constitutional Reform 0 0 0 60 2 4 7 215
On the Evolution of Organizational Governance: Divided Governance and Survival in the Long Run 0 0 0 6 0 0 4 53
On the Evolution of Organizational Government 0 0 0 41 1 4 6 105
On the Inevitability of Divided Government and Improbability of a Complete Separation of Powers 0 0 0 10 1 2 6 47
On the Political Economy of Privacy: Information Sharing between Friends and Foes 0 0 0 17 0 1 4 43
Return to Rio: Agency problems and the political economy of environmental treaties 0 0 0 5 1 1 8 38
The Contractarian Constitutional Political Economy of James Buchanan 0 1 2 92 8 12 21 87
The Logic of Collective Action and Beyond 0 2 3 63 5 9 18 134
Toward a Rule-Based Model of Human Choice: On the Nature of Homo Constitutionalus 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 11
Total Working Papers 0 3 6 394 24 46 112 1,025


Journal Article File Downloads Abstract Views
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A Theory of Menu Federalism: Decentralization by Political Agreement 0 0 0 25 3 3 12 129
A model of asymmetric bureaucratic inertia and bias 0 0 0 10 2 2 11 58
A short history of constitutional liberalism in America 0 0 1 16 0 4 12 75
A test of the institutionally-induced equilibrium hypothesis: on the limited fiscal impact of two celebrity governors 0 0 0 3 2 6 14 41
America’s neglected debt to the Dutch, an institutional perspective 0 0 0 28 1 1 3 145
An Overview of the Contractarian Public Finance of James Buchanan 0 0 0 3 1 2 4 15
Behavioral economics and the Virginia school of political economy: overlaps and complementarities 0 1 1 6 1 5 13 38
Campaign finances and political platforms: The economics of political controversy 0 0 0 7 3 3 13 41
Committees and rent-seeking effort 0 0 0 50 1 3 7 124
Constitutional Political Economy and the Nature and Effects of Rights 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Constitutional bargaining and the quality of contemporary African institutions: a test of the incremental reform hypothesis 0 0 0 8 1 3 7 27
Dennis C. Mueller: Reason, religion, and liberal democracy 0 0 0 12 1 2 4 60
Economic Conditions and National Elections, Post-Sample Forecasts of the Kramer Equations 0 0 0 0 2 4 7 19
Economic Development and Democracy. Does Industrialization Lead to Universal Suffrage? 0 0 0 0 4 4 17 859
Efficient mercantilism? Revenue-maximizing monopoly policies as Ramsey taxation 1 2 2 47 4 6 16 390
Efficient status seeking: Externalities, and the evolution of status games 0 0 1 229 2 2 6 449
Elinor Ostrom, Understanding Institutional Diversity 1 1 1 147 7 11 23 429
Ethics and good governance 0 1 3 22 2 8 22 136
Evaluating rent-seeking losses: Do the welfare gains of lobbyists count? 0 0 0 8 6 6 11 35
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 8
Fiscal Bargaining and the Implicit Fiscal Constitutions of Liberal Democracies: A Public Choice Perspective 0 0 0 3 4 10 16 32
From royal to parliamentary rule without revolution: The economics of constitutional exchange within divided governments 0 1 2 32 5 6 13 110
Gordon Tullock’s implicit analytical history of government 0 0 0 2 2 3 9 39
Governance by true believers: supreme duties with and without totalitarianism 0 0 0 5 6 7 15 45
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 2 4 8 13
Growing up with The Calculus of Consent 0 0 0 4 3 3 7 30
Help, harm or avoid? On the personal advantage of dispositions to cooperate and punish in multilateral PD games with exit 0 0 0 22 3 5 18 105
Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society 0 0 0 57 2 5 13 274
In Defense of Ignorance: On the Significance of a Neglected Form of Incomplete Information 0 0 1 24 0 1 7 156
Information, Special Interests, and Single-Issue Voting 0 0 0 0 1 2 10 260
Informational limits to democratic public policy: The jury theorem, yardstick competition, and ignorance 0 0 0 36 2 2 8 129
Intellectual foundations of public choice, the forest from the trees 0 0 0 10 4 8 22 58
International Public Goods and Agency Problems in Treaty Organizations 0 0 0 10 1 4 10 58
Is it all about competence? The human capital of U.S. presidents and economic performance 0 0 2 39 1 5 14 174
Monitoring Rent-Seeking Managers: Advantages of Diffuse Ownership 0 0 0 27 2 2 2 281
Mutual Advantages of Coercion and Exit within Private Clubs and Treaty Organizations: Towards a Logic of Voluntary Association 0 0 0 13 2 5 13 110
Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting: The potential for public choice 0 0 0 36 1 1 7 149
Non-global social contracts: A note on inefficient social institutions 0 0 0 1 1 2 11 20
On the Durability of King and Council: The Continuum Between Dictatorship and Democracy 0 0 0 11 2 2 3 59
On the Feasibility of a Liberal Welfare State: Agency and Exit Costs in Income Security Clubs 0 0 0 33 0 0 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 0 1 6 270
On the codetermination of tax-financed medical R&D and healthcare expenditures: Models and evidence 0 0 0 3 1 1 8 36
On the editorial transition 0 0 0 15 1 1 3 48
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 4 6 18 119
On the inevitability of divided government and improbability of a complete separation of powers 0 0 0 5 2 3 8 64
On the political economy and limits of crisis insurance: the case of the 2008–11 bailouts 0 0 0 15 4 4 9 65
On the political economy of the financial crisis and bailout of 2008–2009 0 0 0 130 3 4 12 414
On the rationality of mutually immiserating coercion 0 0 0 58 0 0 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 3 3 9 34
Optimal taxation for democracies with less than perfect voters: A public choice perspective 0 1 1 1 3 4 9 14
Political Deadlocks and Distributional Information: The Value of the Veil 0 0 0 0 2 3 9 119
Political Efficiency and Equal Protection of the Law 0 0 0 1 1 1 6 240
Political Institutions and Pollution Control 0 2 2 501 3 10 19 1,385
Proportional and progressive income taxation with utility-maximizing governments 0 0 1 10 1 1 7 39
Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion 0 0 1 49 4 7 26 183
Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion 0 0 2 74 5 8 22 409
Rationality, Morality, and Exit 0 0 1 14 1 1 8 45
Readership and citations as alternative measures of impact 0 0 0 1 4 7 12 41
Rent-seeking aspects of political advertising 0 0 1 5 0 1 9 37
Risk-Averse Taxpayers and the Allocation of Tax Enforcement Effort: Law Enforcement or Leviathan? Some Empirical Evidence 0 0 0 6 1 2 6 36
Robert D. Tollison and the economics of politics 0 0 0 2 3 3 15 41
Thanks to Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 3 1 1 7 26
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 1 126 4 5 15 383
The Electoral Politics and the Evolution of Complex Healthcare Systems 0 0 0 7 3 5 9 122
The Growth of Social Security: Electoral Push or Political Pull? 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 258
The Incumbency Dilemma and Rent Extraction by Legislators 0 0 0 0 1 5 15 189
The Logic of Collective Action and beyond 0 0 2 23 9 21 53 166
The Political Economy of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 49 1 2 5 336
The constitutional political economy of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 8 0 0 4 44
The contractarian constitutional political economy of James Buchanan 0 0 0 7 2 3 28 91
The economic role of a work ethic 0 0 0 172 0 0 7 487
The institutions of international treaty organizations as evidence for social contract theory 0 0 0 2 2 2 11 75
The rise of the modern welfare state, ideology, institutions and income security: analysis and evidence 0 0 0 35 0 0 10 143
The stability inducing propensities of very unstable coalitions: avoiding the downward spiral of majoritarian rent-seeking 0 0 0 16 0 0 6 98
The story of Katrina: New Orleans and the political economy of catastrophe 0 0 0 132 2 5 12 532
Thoughts on Daniel Shapiro's “Is the welfare state justified?” 0 0 0 30 2 2 4 129
Voter Discernment and Candidate Entry in Pluralitarian Election 0 0 0 9 0 2 11 112
Why local governments do not maximize profits: on the value added by the representative institutions of town and city governance 0 0 0 13 1 3 7 72
Total Journal Articles 2 9 26 2,529 162 285 850 12,390


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Perfecting Parliament 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 50
Perfecting Parliament 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 57
Politics by Principle, Not Interest 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 72
Politics by Principle, Not Interest 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 62
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 4 29 241


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Asymmetric Federalism and the Political Economy of Decentralization 1 2 5 69 2 4 14 170
Commitees and rent-seeking effort 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 5
Competitive Process, Competitive Waste, and Institutions 0 1 2 2 1 4 14 16
Early Spanish liberalism and constitutional political economy: the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 0 0 0 8 6 6 11 78
Efficient Status Seeking: Externalities, and the Evolution of Status Games 0 0 0 0 2 2 10 13
Federalism and tax-financed healthcare: economic advantages, dilemmas, and solutions 0 0 0 5 3 3 4 14
Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview 0 0 0 0 1 3 14 26
Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview 0 1 1 2 3 8 20 31
Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society 0 0 0 0 2 3 8 11
Informational Limits to Public Policy: Ignorance and the Jury Theorem 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 11
Monitoring rent-seeking managers: advantages of diffuse ownership 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 5
On Some Neglected, But Profound, Contributions of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 0 2 3 8 10
Public choice and the modern welfare state 0 0 1 40 2 3 6 100
Rent-seeking aspects of political advertising 0 0 0 0 2 4 10 12
The Political Economy of Crisis Management: Surprise, Urgency, and Mistakes in Political Decision Making 0 0 1 4 1 4 8 16
The politics of government growth 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 23
Total Chapters 1 4 10 134 28 50 142 541


Statistics updated 2026-05-06