Public Choice

Public Choice publishes scholarly research that applies economics to nonmarket social phenomena, such as politics, law, religion, conflict, and the family. For over half a century the journal has served as a premier outlet for interdisciplinary work by political scientists, legal scholars, sociologists, and economists.

  1. Populism and academic freedom 2026-08-30
  2. Beyond six versus twelve: Kian v. Florida and the design of the criminal jury 2026-08-27
  3. Gary D. Libecap, Where’s Coase? The implications of economic property rights or rent-seeking in forming institutions 2026-08-27
  4. Logrolling affects the relative performance of majority and unanimity rule 2026-08-27
  5. Law enforcement with rent dissipation 2026-08-27
  6. Gubernatorial partisanship and housing outcomes: evidence from close elections 2026-08-27
  7. A hangover like any other: the cost of ruling for populist parties 2026-08-25
  8. The political economy of exit protection 2026-08-25
  9. Electoral cycles and consumption in India 2026-08-22
  10. Constitutional drafting processes and constitutional success 2026-08-22
  11. Electoral incentives when the stakes are low: a case study from an economics department 2026-08-20
  12. A rationale for political disengagement 2026-08-19
  13. Pension’s resource-time trade-off: the role of inequalities in the design of retirement schemes 2026-08-19
  14. Partisan conflict and economic policy uncertainty: insights from a time-varying causality approach 2026-08-19
  15. Dual regulation and the cost of electricity rents to households: evidence from Texas 2026-08-19
  16. Money talks, moderation walks: the centripetal impact of campaign contributions in the U.S. house 2026-08-19
  17. The efficiency paradox of majoritarian democracy 2026-08-17
  18. Private governance and the limits of state antiquity 2026-08-14
  19. Rent-seeking and litigation: some underappreciated virtues of reverse contingency fees 2026-08-14
  20. Fairness trade-offs in expert evaluation: information, judgment, and procedural design 2026-08-04
  21. Sociological rational choice theory: retrospect and prospect 2026-08-03
  22. Proportional representation primer 2026-07-30
  23. A characterization of Black’s voting rule 2026-07-30
  24. Office-seeking under demographic change: immigration, coalition government, and municipal budget reallocation in Sweden 2026-07-30
  25. Social identification and equilibrium law enforcement 2026-07-29
  26. Beyond free riding or free racing: a framework for understanding subnational tax policy interdependence 2026-07-28
  27. Allocating faculty compute budgets 2026-07-28
  28. The long decline of trust in democratic institutions 2026-07-28
  29. Rule of law or rule of ties? Interregional rotation of law enforcement officials and market integration in China 2026-07-21
  30. Fiscal capacity and the flypaper effect 2026-07-21
  31. Ranked choice voting with different elimination procedures 2026-07-10
  32. Party discipline, representation, and the condorcet jury theorem 2026-07-08
  33. Press freedom and government spending efficiency 2026-07-02
  34. Turnout and the distortion of representation: the case of electoral polarization 2026-07-02
  35. Review of Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education by Augustina Paglayan 2026-07-02
  36. Organized thuggery 2026-06-20
  37. New brooms sweep cleaner? political term and air pollution governance 2026-06-20
  38. The rise of Christianity, the demise of Greco-Roman religion, and economics 2026-06-17
  39. From pilots to law: policy uncertainty in rural land reform and land prices in China 2026-06-17
  40. How voters choose under the Borda rule: evidence from a post-election survey experiment in Germany 2025 2026-06-17
  41. When the money stops: fiscal and political reactions to changing grant eligibility 2026-06-10
  42. Downstream centrality and industry lobbying in production networks 2026-06-10
  43. Why Bloomington is not in Virginia: Contrasting the social ontologies, methodologies, and governance theories of the Ostroms and Buchanan 2026-06-09
  44. Loose bricks in the wall: Underground press and political opposition in non-democracies 2026-06-08
  45. Political connections, contract imperfections, and firm outsourcing 2026-06-03
  46. The promotion club 2026-06-03
  47. Ethnic bias, commitment and public good provisioning 2026-06-03
  48. Murder in the Marketplace 2026-06-02
  49. Imperial Japan, civilian control, and democratic reversal 2026-06-02
  50. Adam Smith and the role of the towns in feudal Europe 2026-06-02