Public Choice

Public Choice OnlineFirst articles

30.11.2018

Collective decision-making of voters with heterogeneous levels of rationality

This paper studies the collective decision-making processes of voters who have heterogeneous levels of rationality. Specifically, we consider a voting body consisting of both rational and sincere voters. Rational voters vote strategically …

29.11.2018

Do sanctions lead to a decline in civil liberties?

In this paper, we examine the effect of US-imposed sanctions on the civil liberties of the targeted countries for the 1972–2014 period. To deal with the problem of selection and to control for the pre-sanction dynamics, we use a potential outcomes …

28.11.2018

A banana republic? The effects of inconsistencies in the counting of votes on voting behavior

We examine whether local inconsistencies in the counting of votes influence voting behavior. We exploit the case of the second ballot of the 2016 presidential election in Austria. The ballot needed to be repeated because postal votes were counted …

19.11.2018

Land lotteries, long-term wealth, and political selection

Does personal wealth cause individuals to select into public office? This study exploits the 1805 and 1807 Georgia land lotteries to investigate the hypothesis that wealth increases political power. Most eligible males participated in the …

01.11.2018

Strategic and experimental analyses of conflict and terrorism

Understanding the root causes of conflict and terrorism ultimately will allow policymakers to enact measures to reduce violence’s associated costs. This special issue on “Strategic and Experimental Approaches to the Study of Conflict and …

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Titel

Public Choice

Verlag

Springer US

Abdeckung

Jahrgang 90/1997 - Jahrgang 177/2018

Print ISSN

0048-5829

Elektronische ISSN

1573-7101

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/11127.1573-7101

Zeitschriften-ID

11127