This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). As
in the previous additions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include …

Most analytical work in public choice is based upon relatively simple models of majority
decision making. These models are widely used even though the researchers know that real …

An in-depth look at disparities in health and health care, fully updated for 2021 Vulnerable
Populations in the United States, 3rd Edition provides a general framework for studying …

(1) To provide an empirical comparison of the traditional regression approach using average
per capita income with the median voter approach to public expenditure.(2) To explicitly take …

8. Conclusion The changing perception by public choice theorists about the relevance of the
median voter model is a result of excessive extrapolation of the conclusions of theoretical …

Since the sixties, the discussion whether democracy is a precondition for or a result of
economic growth has not yet been finished. In this paper a comparative institutional analysis …

The relative efficiency of the city manager versus the elected mayor-council form of
municipal government has been the subject of several studies in the urban public sector …

In this paper, disclosure indexes of municipalities are developed based on the anticipated
needs of political groups. Next, disclosure quality relationships are modeled on political and …

This is the first comprehensive analysis of how the collective nature of Supreme Court
decision making affects the transformation of the justices' preferences into constitutional …

Although the median-voter hypothesis has been around for nearly fifty years, direct tests of
the hypothesis have not been forthcoming. This study first develops a model to consider the …