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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 2 4 6 10
A Test of the Unraveling Hypothesis: Constitutional Bargaining and the Quality of African Institutions 0 0 0 18 3 6 6 68
Constitutional Bargaining, Eminent Domain, and the Quality of Contemporary African Institutions: A Test of the Incremental Reform Hypothesis 0 0 0 29 4 6 7 65
Coping with unpleasant surprises in a complex world: Is rational choice possible in a world with positive information costs? 0 1 1 52 2 3 3 137
Democracy in America: Labor Mobility, Ideology, and Constitutional Reform 0 0 0 60 3 3 4 211
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 0 2 2 101
On the Inevitability of Divided Government and Improbability of a Complete Separation of Powers 0 0 0 10 3 3 4 45
On the Political Economy of Privacy: Information Sharing between Friends and Foes 0 0 0 17 2 3 3 42
Return to Rio: Agency problems and the political economy of environmental treaties 0 0 0 5 2 7 7 37
The Contractarian Constitutional Political Economy of James Buchanan 0 1 1 91 4 7 9 75
The Logic of Collective Action and Beyond 0 1 1 61 3 8 10 125
Toward a Rule-Based Model of Human Choice: On the Nature of Homo Constitutionalus 0 0 0 1 3 4 5 10
Total Working Papers 0 3 3 391 31 57 70 979


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A Theory of Menu Federalism: Decentralization by Political Agreement 0 0 0 25 4 6 11 126
A model of asymmetric bureaucratic inertia and bias 0 0 0 10 6 7 9 56
A short history of constitutional liberalism in America 0 0 1 16 4 7 8 71
A test of the institutionally-induced equilibrium hypothesis: on the limited fiscal impact of two celebrity governors 0 0 0 3 4 7 9 35
America’s neglected debt to the Dutch, an institutional perspective 0 0 0 28 1 1 2 144
An Overview of the Contractarian Public Finance of James Buchanan 0 0 1 3 1 1 3 13
Behavioral economics and the Virginia school of political economy: overlaps and complementarities 0 0 0 5 3 5 10 33
Campaign finances and political platforms: The economics of political controversy 0 0 0 7 3 7 10 38
Committees and rent-seeking effort 0 0 1 50 3 3 7 121
Constitutional bargaining and the quality of contemporary African institutions: a test of the incremental reform hypothesis 0 0 0 8 4 4 4 24
Dennis C. Mueller: Reason, religion, and liberal democracy 0 0 0 12 1 2 2 58
Economic Conditions and National Elections, Post-Sample Forecasts of the Kramer Equations 0 0 0 0 0 3 5 15
Economic Development and Democracy. Does Industrialization Lead to Universal Suffrage? 0 0 0 0 5 11 13 855
Efficient mercantilism? Revenue-maximizing monopoly policies as Ramsey taxation 0 0 0 45 5 7 11 384
Efficient status seeking: Externalities, and the evolution of status games 0 1 1 229 3 4 4 447
Elinor Ostrom, Understanding Institutional Diversity 0 0 0 146 5 10 12 418
Ethics and good governance 0 2 2 21 2 11 17 128
Evaluating rent-seeking losses: Do the welfare gains of lobbyists count? 0 0 0 8 4 4 5 29
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 5
Fiscal Bargaining and the Implicit Fiscal Constitutions of Liberal Democracies: A Public Choice Perspective 0 0 0 3 3 6 6 22
From royal to parliamentary rule without revolution: The economics of constitutional exchange within divided governments 0 0 1 31 4 5 8 104
Gordon Tullock’s implicit analytical history of government 0 0 0 2 3 5 6 36
Governance by true believers: supreme duties with and without totalitarianism 0 0 0 5 3 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 2 3 5 9
Growing up with The Calculus of Consent 0 0 0 4 2 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 3 9 13 100
Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society 0 0 0 57 4 5 11 269
In Defense of Ignorance: On the Significance of a Neglected Form of Incomplete Information 0 0 1 24 2 3 6 155
Information, Special Interests, and Single-Issue Voting 0 0 0 0 2 4 8 258
Informational limits to democratic public policy: The jury theorem, yardstick competition, and ignorance 0 0 0 36 2 6 6 127
Intellectual foundations of public choice, the forest from the trees 0 0 0 10 8 13 14 50
International Public Goods and Agency Problems in Treaty Organizations 0 0 0 10 0 5 6 54
Is it all about competence? The human capital of U.S. presidents and economic performance 0 0 2 39 5 6 14 169
Monitoring Rent-Seeking Managers: Advantages of Diffuse Ownership 0 0 0 27 0 0 1 279
Mutual Advantages of Coercion and Exit within Private Clubs and Treaty Organizations: Towards a Logic of Voluntary Association 0 0 0 13 3 6 8 105
Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting: The potential for public choice 0 0 0 36 1 6 6 148
Non-global social contracts: A note on inefficient social institutions 0 0 0 1 6 8 9 18
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 1 2 3 123
On the Political Economy of State Highway Expenditures: Some Evidence of the Relative Performance of Alternative Public Choice Models 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 269
On the codetermination of tax-financed medical R&D and healthcare expenditures: Models and evidence 0 0 0 3 1 6 7 35
On the editorial transition 0 0 0 15 1 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 4 9 12 113
On the inevitability of divided government and improbability of a complete separation of powers 0 0 0 5 0 4 5 61
On the political economy and limits of crisis insurance: the case of the 2008–11 bailouts 0 0 0 15 1 5 5 61
On the political economy of the financial crisis and bailout of 2008–2009 0 0 1 130 1 4 9 410
On the rationality of mutually immiserating coercion 0 0 0 58 1 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 2 2 6 31
Optimal taxation for democracies with less than perfect voters: A public choice perspective 0 0 0 0 2 4 7 10
Political Deadlocks and Distributional Information: The Value of the Veil 0 0 0 0 1 4 6 116
Political Efficiency and Equal Protection of the Law 0 0 0 1 4 5 5 239
Political Institutions and Pollution Control 0 0 0 499 0 3 9 1,375
Proportional and progressive income taxation with utility-maximizing governments 0 0 1 10 2 3 7 38
Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion 0 1 2 74 4 7 14 401
Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion 1 1 1 49 7 17 19 176
Rationality, Morality, and Exit 0 0 1 14 4 4 7 44
Readership and citations as alternative measures of impact 0 0 0 1 0 3 5 34
Rent-seeking aspects of political advertising 0 0 1 5 2 5 10 36
Risk-Averse Taxpayers and the Allocation of Tax Enforcement Effort: Law Enforcement or Leviathan? Some Empirical Evidence 0 0 0 6 2 2 4 34
Robert D. Tollison and the economics of politics 0 0 0 2 6 7 12 38
Thanks to Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 3 3 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 2 5 11 378
The Electoral Politics and the Evolution of Complex Healthcare Systems 0 0 0 7 1 1 4 117
The Growth of Social Security: Electoral Push or Political Pull? 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 256
The Incumbency Dilemma and Rent Extraction by Legislators 0 0 0 0 4 5 11 184
The Logic of Collective Action and beyond 0 2 3 23 11 24 34 145
The Political Economy of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 49 2 3 3 334
The constitutional political economy of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 8 2 3 4 44
The contractarian constitutional political economy of James Buchanan 0 0 0 7 8 21 25 88
The economic role of a work ethic 0 0 0 172 1 7 8 487
The institutions of international treaty organizations as evidence for social contract theory 0 0 0 2 4 6 10 73
The rise of the modern welfare state, ideology, institutions and income security: analysis and evidence 0 0 0 35 2 5 10 143
The stability inducing propensities of very unstable coalitions: avoiding the downward spiral of majoritarian rent-seeking 0 0 1 16 4 4 7 98
The story of Katrina: New Orleans and the political economy of catastrophe 0 0 1 132 3 6 8 527
Thoughts on Daniel Shapiro's “Is the welfare state justified?” 0 0 1 30 0 2 4 127
Voter Discernment and Candidate Entry in Pluralitarian Election 0 0 0 9 5 8 10 110
Why local governments do not maximize profits: on the value added by the representative institutions of town and city governance 0 0 0 13 2 3 5 69
Total Journal Articles 1 7 25 2,520 217 411 611 12,105


Book File Downloads Abstract Views
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Perfecting Parliament 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 57
Perfecting Parliament 0 0 0 0 3 6 8 49
Politics by Principle, Not Interest 0 0 0 0 3 8 11 61
Politics by Principle, Not Interest 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 70
Total Books 0 0 0 0 9 20 28 237


Chapter File Downloads Abstract Views
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Asymmetric Federalism and the Political Economy of Decentralization 0 1 3 67 3 6 11 166
Commitees and rent-seeking effort 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 5
Competitive Process, Competitive Waste, and Institutions 1 1 1 1 3 6 10 12
Early Spanish liberalism and constitutional political economy: the Cádiz Constitution of 1812 0 0 0 8 2 3 7 72
Efficient Status Seeking: Externalities, and the Evolution of Status Games 0 0 0 0 2 7 9 11
Federalism and tax-financed healthcare: economic advantages, dilemmas, and solutions 0 0 0 5 0 1 2 11
Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview 0 0 0 0 0 5 13 23
Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview 0 0 0 1 4 9 13 23
Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society 0 0 0 0 3 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 3 4 4 4
On Some Neglected, But Profound, Contributions of Gordon Tullock 0 0 0 0 3 5 5 7
Public choice and the modern welfare state 0 0 1 40 1 1 4 97
Rent-seeking aspects of political advertising 0 0 0 0 5 6 6 8
The Political Economy of Crisis Management: Surprise, Urgency, and Mistakes in Political Decision Making 0 0 3 4 0 2 6 12
The politics of government growth 0 0 0 4 2 3 6 23
Total Chapters 1 2 8 130 32 65 108 491


Statistics updated 2026-02-12