| # | 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 |