Public Choice

Editorial announcement

Economic and security consequences of supreme values

Arye L. Hillman

Political institutions and economic growth reconsidered

Jakob de Haan

The effectiveness of institutional borrowing restrictions: Empirical evidence from Spanish municipalities

Fermín Cabasés, Pedro Pascual, Jaime Vallés

Outsourcing in contests

Frode Meland, Odd Rune Straume

The turnout ‘gap’ and the costs of voting – a comparison of participation at the 2001 general and 2002 local elections in England

Colin Rallings, Michael Thrasher

Political economy of the U.S. temporary duty suspension program: An empirical note

Omer Gokcekus, Amber Barth

Choosing a runoff election threshold

Jeffrey C. O’Neill

Natural resources, aid, and democratization: A best-case scenario

Kevin M. Morrison

Does political knowledge increase turnout? Evidence from the 1997 British general election

Valentino Larcinese

The effects of alternative power-sharing arrangements: Do “moderating” institutions moderate party strategies and government policy outputs?

Samuel Merrill III, James Adams

Changing minds? Not in Congress!

Keith T. Poole

Delegation with multiple instruments in a rent-seeking contest

Lambert Schoonbeek

Scheduling of panels by integer programming: Results for the 2005 and 2006 New Orleans meetings

Richard F. Potthoff, Steven J. Brams

Campaign resources and electoral success: Evidence from the 2002 French parliamentary elections

Gil S. Epstein, Raphaël Franck

Goods or resource contests?

Martin Kolmar

David F. Prindle, The Paradox of Democratic Capitalism: Politics and Economics in American Thought. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. USD 49.95 (cloth).

Randall G. Holcombe

Beyond conventional economics: The limits of rational behaviour in political decision making

Bryan Caplan