Roger D. Congleton — Most Read Papers

Public Choice · Constitutional Political Economy · Economics of Governance · Kyklos — papers exceeding 500 downloads, ranked by publisher "Accesses" metrics
Data as of August 23, 2026
# Paper Title Downloads
1 On the political economy of the financial crisis and bailout of 2008–2009 8,177
2 Intellectual foundations of public choice, the forest from the trees 5,650
3 Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life 4,732
4 The Logic of Collective Action and beyond 3,945
5 Elinor Ostrom, Understanding Institutional Diversity (book review) 3,925
6 On the political economy and limits of crisis insurance: the case of the 2008–11 bailouts 3,358
7 Robert D. Tollison and the economics of politics 2,246
8 The story of Katrina: New Orleans and the political economy of catastrophe 1,778
9 Ethics and good governance 1,295
10 On the emergence of a classic work: a short history of the impact of Gordon Tullock's Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft 1,243
11 Toward a rule-based model of human choice: on the nature of Homo Constitutionalus
Book chapter in James M. Buchanan (Palgrave Macmillan), 2018 — not a journal article, included for reference
1,173
12 Optimal taxation for democracies with less than perfect voters: a public choice perspective 1,150
13 A short history of constitutional liberalism in America 1,092
14 Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion 886
15 Is it all about competence? The human capital of U.S. presidents and economic performance 856
16 The contractarian constitutional political economy of James Buchanan 715
17 Constitutional Political Economy and the Nature and Effects of Rights 676
18 Behavioral economics and the Virginia School of Political Economy: overlaps and complementarities 623
19 On the inevitability of divided government and improbability of a complete separation of powers 612
20 The rise of the modern welfare state, ideology, institutions, and income security: analysis and evidence 548

Other Papers in these journals of interest, but with less than 500 downloads

A Theory of Menu Federalism (488) · America's Neglected Debt to the Dutch (432) · On the Stability of U.S. Politics / Social Security & Medicare (424) · On the Durability of King and Council (378) · Why Local Governments Do Not Maximize Profits (362) · The Constitutional Political Economy of Gordon Tullock (326) · A Test of the Institutionally Induced Equilibrium Hypothesis / celebrity governors (411) · Rent Seeking in a Constitutional Context (270, 2026) · Informational Limits to Democratic Public Policy (257) · Readership and Citations as Alternative Measures of Impact (255) · Gordon Tullock's Implicit Analytical History of Government (286) · Thanks to Gordon Tullock (225) · On the Feasibility of a Liberal Welfare State (162).

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