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Do the IMF and the World Bank influence voting in the UN General Assembly?

Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - In: Public Choice 151 (2012) 1, pp. 363-397

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The ideological use and abuse of Freiburg’s ordoliberalism

Dold, Malte; Krieger, Tim - In: Public Choice (2021), pp. 1-21

In the aftermath of the Eurozone crisis, a battle of ideas emerged over whether ordoliberalism is part of the cause or the solution of economic problems in Europe. While German ordoliberals argued that their policy proposals were largely ignored before, during and after the crisis, critics saw...

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Ideology and the size of US state government

Pickering, Andrew; Rockey, James - In: Public Choice 156 (2013) 3, pp. 443-465

This paper theorizes that the impact of ideology on the size of US state governments increases with state income. This … idea is tested using state-level ideology data derived from the voting behavior of state congressional representatives …. Empirically the interaction of ideology and mean income is a key determinant of state government size. At 1960s levels of income …

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Voters, dictators, and peons: expressive voting and pivotality

Kamenica, Emir; Brad, Louisa Egan - In: Public Choice 159 (2014) 1, pp. 159-176

direct expressive utility from voting in accordance with their ideology and understand that they are unlikely to be pivotal …

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A tribute to Earl A. Thompson and, in his own words, a summary of his general economic and social theory

Allison, Don; Borcherding, Thomas - In: Public Choice 156 (2013) 1, pp. 7-29

Brilliant but little known, in part because his style was dense and crucial papers unpublished, Earl Thompson reformulated standard theory to achieve policy relevance, focusing on significant rent-seeking inefficiencies stemming from private information and transaction costs. Drawing on history,...

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Did southerners favor slavery? Inferences from an analysis of prices in New Orleans, 1805–1860

Grynaviski, Jeffrey; Munger, Michael - In: Public Choice 159 (2014) 3, pp. 341-361

During the years immediately following the American Revolution, it was common for Southern elites to express concerns about the morality or long-term viability of slavery. It is unclear, however, whether such expressions of anti-slavery sentiment were genuine, especially given the failure of so...

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The impact of within-party and between-party ideological dispersion on fiscal outcomes: evidence from Swiss cantonal parliaments

Bjedov, Tjaša; Lapointe, Simon; Madiès, Thierry - In: Public Choice 161 (2014) 1, pp. 209-232

abstracted from two important concepts: ideology and intra-party politics. In this paper, we account for these two phenomena …

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Winer, Stanley; Tofias, Michael; Grofman, Bernard; … - In: Public Choice 135 (2008) 3, pp. 415-448

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Individual campaign contributions and candidate ideology

Ensley, Michael - In: Public Choice 138 (2009) 1, pp. 221-238

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Preference modification vs. incentive manipulation as tools of terrorist recruitment: The role of culture

Munger, Michael - In: Public Choice 128 (2006) 1, pp. 131-146

Terrorism is a tactic much more likely to be used when combatants have asymmetric numerical strength and weaponry. Only if one side is comparatively very weak will it use terror tactics. This weakness requires a means of controlling strong incentives for free-riding or defection from the weaker...

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