Public Choice

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Public Choice publishes scholarly research that applies economics to nonmarket social phenomena, such as politics, law, religion, conflict, and the family.

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Guerrero, F., Mahmoudi, M., Pingle, M. et al. Helping addicts: When can trying to do good be dysfunctional?. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Grajzl, P., Ćorić, B. & Srhoj, S. Deregulation derailed: evidence from services markets liberalization in Croatia. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Noé, R.R. German coffee, predatory states, and selective property rights enforcement in 20th-century Guatemala. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

_PublicChoice's tweet card. Public Choice - How do political leaders in states with limited institutional constraints enforce property rights? In 20th-century Guatemala, German coffee producers benefited from the...

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Rodríguez, F., Imam, P. Political growth collapses. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

_PublicChoice's tweet card. Public Choice - Economic collapses can result from political actors adopting strategies that generate severe negative economic externalities for society. This paper establishes the conditions under...

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Le Maux, B., Paty, S. Why so many representatives? Extending the cube root law to local assemblies. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: McLean, I. Hybrid choice systems in small-n elections with sophisticated electorates. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

_PublicChoice's tweet card. Public Choice - Faced with the classic paradoxes of voting, system designers have sometimes offered hybrid systems. The paper reviews Condorcet–Borda hybrids proposed by Daunou, Dodgson,...

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Lewkowicz, J., Sękowski, M. & Fałkowski, J. The dynamics of political polarization and voting on economic issues: evidence from the Polish parliament, 2005–23. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

_PublicChoice's tweet card. Public Choice - There have been growing concerns that political polarization is intensifying. These concerns, however, are primarily based on anecdotal evidence, aggregate measures related to...

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Mattos, E.d.S. The Judiciary as a fiscal policy tool? Budget stress and judicial decision-making in Brazil. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

_PublicChoice's tweet card. Public Choice - Fiscal policy outcomes are shaped not only by Legislative and Executive actions but also by judicial decisions. To examine if courts respond to fiscal pressures, we analyze 358...

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Gars, J., Spiro, D. & Wachtmeister, H. Winners and losers of a Russian oil-export restriction. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Shikano, S., Herron , E.S. Risk diversification and vote decisions in mixed-member electoral systems. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

_PublicChoice's tweet card. Public Choice - This paper builds on the literature about mixed-member electoral systems, exploring how ballot design interacts with voter behavior. We present a theoretical model for vote...

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Behnke, J. The spectacular enlargement of the Bundestag and the long road to the 2023 German electoral law reform. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

_PublicChoice's tweet card. Public Choice - Since 2002, the regular size of the German Bundestag has been 598 seats. However, due to overhang and compensatory mandates, the Bundestag was enlarged to 709 seats after the 2017...

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Bjørnskov, C., Voigt, S. Coups and constitutional change. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

_PublicChoice's tweet card. Public Choice - Successful coup plotters come to power by disregarding the constraints of their country’s constitution. Yet, 42% of them initiate the writing of a new constitution within...

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Flis, J., Behnke, J., Lorenc, K. et al. Cancellation of overhang seats: the price of unkept promises. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

_PublicChoice's tweet card. Public Choice - Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) electoral systems aim to balance territorial representation, personal voter-politician connections, and party proportionality. However, legislators...

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Tsai, CY. Political competition and Chinese official data. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

_PublicChoice's tweet card. Public Choice - This paper examines how political competition is related to the integrity of official economic data in China’s county-level governance, focusing on two types of data...

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Tanács-Mandák, F., Horváth, A. The “hacking” of a mixed electoral system: a case study of Hungary. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

_PublicChoice's tweet card. Public Choice - Following Hungary’s 2010 parliamentary election, the Fidesz–KDNP government, as part of a comprehensive restructuring of the country’s constitutional system,...

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Koppl, R., Pronin, K., Cowen, N. et al. Bespoke science: the use of ad hoc scientific advisory committees in the Covid-19 pandemic. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

_PublicChoice's tweet card. Public Choice - Many governments formed ad hoc scientific advisory committees in the Covid-19 pandemic because they offered the government greater control over policy advice than standing agencies....

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Bae, S.H., Krasnozhon, L. Interstate conflicts with multiple fronts. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Harvey, M. Unexpected politics: Do interest rates influence lobbying expenditure?. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Park, S. The political economy of compulsory licensing: democracy and regulatory threat in public health. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

_PublicChoice's tweet card. Public Choice - Research on regulation highlights firms’ voluntary efforts to regulate their behavior without explaining how political institutions drive those efforts. This paper argues that...

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Public Choice@_PublicChoice · Jul 14

Available now at our website: Chiaramonte, A., Paparo, A. Parties’ and voters’ dilemmas under Italy’s new mixed electoral system. Public Choice (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s11127…

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