In this paper we provide a statistical analysis of authorship in Public Choice over the past 30 years. We explore trends in article length and coauthorship, as well as provide rankings of individual authors and institutions by total pages published in the journal. This is the first such ranking...

Models of expressive voting postulate that voters will `consume' ideological stances on issues by voting for them, even when they are against the voter's own narrow self interest, if the probability of being a decisive voter is low. When a voter is unlikely to sway the outcome, the odds that a...