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Burke, Jeremy; Taylor, Curtis - In: Public Choice 137 (2008) 1, pp. 221-244

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Modeling the influence of polls on elections: a population dynamics approach

Restrepo, Juan; Rael, Rosalyn; Hyman, James - In: Public Choice 140 (2009) 3, pp. 395-420

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Deliberation in large juries with diverse preferences

Hummel, Patrick - In: Public Choice 150 (2012) 3, pp. 595-608

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Informational limits to democratic public policy: The jury theorem, yardstick competition, and ignorance

Congleton, Roger - In: Public Choice 132 (2007) 3, pp. 333-352

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Neither Hayek nor Habermas

Sunstein, Cass - In: Public Choice 134 (2008) 1, pp. 87-95

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

Larcinese, Valentino - In: Public Choice 131 (2007) 3, pp. 387-411

A number of recent formal models predict a positive effect of political knowledge on turnout. Both information acquisition and turnout, however, are likely to be determined by a similar set of variables, rendering hard the identification of a causal link in empirical investigations. Available...

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Distribution of transfers and soft budget spending behaviors: evidence from Italian regions

Padovano, Fabio - In: Public Choice 161 (2014) 1, pp. 11-29

information forces the subcentral government to form expectations about the amount of transfers that it will receive from the … central one. The empirical analysis features a wide array of proxies for transfer expectations and uses an autoregressive … transfer expectations are a quantitatively important component of local government spending, revealing evidence of soft budget …

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Nonexpert beliefs about the macroeconomic consequences of economic and noneconomic events

Roos, Michael - In: Public Choice 132 (2007) 3, pp. 291-304

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Legitimacy and the cost of government

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Lipka, David - In: Public Choice 162 (2015) 3, pp. 307-328

While previous research documents a negative relationship between government size and economic growth, suggesting an economic cost of big government, a given government size generally affects growth differently in different countries. As a possible explanation of this differential effect, we...

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Public choice, political economy and development: an introduction to the life, times and themes of Martin Paldam

Aidt, Toke; Bjørnskov, Christian; Kurrild-Klitgaard, Peter - In: Public Choice 157 (2013) 3, pp. 357-365

Martin Paldam is one of the most prominent figures of Danish economics and European public choice. In this introduction to the special issue, we identify five of the areas, where he has made significant contributions: (1) vote and popularity functions and political business cycles; (2)...

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