Public Choice

Editorial announcement

In honor of a colleague, Mancur Olson, 1932–1998

Gordon Tullock

In Memoriam, Mancur Olson, 1932–1998

Dennis C. Mueller

Equilibria of collective action in different distributions of protest thresholds

Chien-chung Yin

Political Action Committee Spending and Senate roll call voting

Peter T. Calcagno, John D. Jackson

Free riders or easy riders?: An examination of the voluntary provision of public radio

Eric J. Brunner

Why only Nixon could go to China

Tyler Cowen, Daniel Sutter

Veto games: Spatial committees under unanimity rule

Yan Chen, Peter C. Ordeshook

When is buying votes wrong?

Michael S. Kochin, Levis A. Kochin

Do the elderly “vote with their feet?”

Karen Schmith Conway, Andrew J. Houtenville

Political pressure and regulatory control

Chia-Chuen Chang, James W. Mjelde, Teofilo Ozuna

Empirical Banzhaf indices

Andrew Heard, Tim Swartz

64% Majority rule in Ducal Venice: Voting for the Doge

Jay S. Coggins, C. Federico Perali

Michael Laver and Kenneth A. Shepsle, Making and breaking governments: Cabinets and legislatures in parliamentary democracies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. xi + 301 pages. $59.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper)

Douglas Wills

Dennis C. Mueller (Ed.), Perspectives on public choice: A handbook. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiii + 672 pages. $79.95 (cloth); $29.95 (paper)

William A. Niskanen

Fred S. McChesney, Money for nothing: Politicians, rent extraction and political extortion. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. xi + 216 pages. $35.00 (cloth)

Leland B. Yeager

Money for nothing: Politicians, rent extraction and political extortion

Peter J. Hill