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According to Wikipedia, Roger Douglas Congleton is an American economist. He serves as the BB&T Professor of Economics at West Virginia University and is the co-editor-in-chief of the journal Constitutional Political Economy.

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Political Institutions and Pollution Control (1992) (471)
Politics by Principle, Not Interest: Towards Nondiscriminatory Democracy (1998) (200)
Rationality, Morality, and Exit (1992) (194)
Perfecting Parliament: Constitutional Reform, Liberalism, and the Rise of Western Democracy (2010) (193)
Efficient status seeking: Externalities, and the evolution of status games (1989) (171)
Companion to the Political Economy of Rent Seeking (2015) (161)
The Median Voter Model (2004) (154)
The story of Katrina: New Orleans and the political economy of catastrophe (2006) (119)
40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 1 (2008) (109)
Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence (2006) (107)
From royal to parliamentary rule without revolution: The economics of constitutional exchange within divided governments (2007) (87)
On the political economy of the financial crisis and bailout of 2008–2009 (2009) (87)
Forty Years of Research on Rent Seeking: An Overview (2008) (86)
Committees and rent-seeking effort (1984) (82)
The Economic Analysis of Rent Seeking (1995) (79)
On the political economy of state highway expenditures: Some evidence of the relative performance of alternative public choice models (1995) (79)
Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion (2001) (79)
THE GROWTH OF SOCIAL SECURITY: ELECTORAL PUSH OR POLITICAL PULL? (1990) (76)
40 years of research on rent seeking, vol. 1: Theory of rent seeking (2008) (72)
A Theory of Menu Federalism: Decentralization by Political Agreement (2006) (66)
Competitive Process, Competitive Waste, and Institutions (2008) (63)
On the Durability of King and Council: The Continuum Between Dictatorship and Democracy (2001) (63)
The economic role of a work ethic (1991) (60)
Rent-seeking aspects of political advertising (1986) (56)
40 Years of Research on Rent Seeking 2 (2008) (53)
Ideological conviction and persuasion in the rent-seeking society (1991) (51)
The rise of the modern welfare state, ideology, institutions and income security: analysis and evidence (2010) (50)
Informational limits to democratic public policy: The jury theorem, yardstick competition, and ignorance (2007) (45)
The political economy of environmental protection : analysis and evidence (1996) (42)
Governing the Global Environmental Commons: The Political Economy of International Environmental Treaties and Institutions (2001) (40)
Is it all about competence? The human capital of U.S. presidents and economic performance (2013) (39)
Politics by principle, not interest: References (1998) (38)
40 years of research on rent seeking, vol. 2: Applications: rent seeking in practice (2008) (35)
The contractarian constitutional political economy of James Buchanan (2013) (35)
Elinor Ostrom, Understanding Institutional Diversity (2007) (33)
Improving Democracy Through Constitutional Reform: Some Swedish Lessons (2003) (32)
Campaign finances and political platforms: The economics of political controversy (1989) (31)
Asymmetric Federalism and the Political Economy of Decentralization (2006) (31)
Improving Democracy Through Constitutional Reform (2012) (31)
Help, harm or avoid? On the personal advantage of dispositions to cooperate and punish in multilateral PD games with exit (2001) (30)
Evaluating rent-seeking losses: Do the welfare gains of lobbyists count? (1988) (28)
The Political Economy of Gordon Tullock (2004) (28)
Economic Development and Democracy. Does Industrialization Lead to Universal Suffrage (2004) (23)
Efficient mercantilism? Revenue-maximizing monopoly policies as Ramsey taxation (2009) (23)
The incumbency dilemma and rent extraction by legislators (1994) (23)
The Logic of Collective Action and beyond (2015) (22)
The Political Economy of Crisis Management: Surprise, Urgency, and Mistakes in Political Decision Making (2004) (22)
Information, special interests, and single-issue voting (1991) (22)
On the Merits of Bicameral Legislatures: Policy Stability within Partisan Polities (2002) (21)
Terrorism, Interest-Group Politics, and Public Policy: Curtailing Criminal Modes of Political Speech (2002) (21)
The Electoral Politics and the Evolution of Complex Healthcare Systems (2017) (21)
The stability inducing propensities of very unstable coalitions: avoiding the downward spiral of majoritarian rent-seeking (1999) (20)
On the inevitability of divided government and improbability of a complete separation of powers (2013) (20)
An Overview of the Contractarian Public Finance of James Buchanan (1988) (20)
The Dark Side of the Force: Economic Foundations of Conflict Theory, by Hirshleifer, J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 366 pp., USD 90|GBP 60 (cloth); USD 29.95|GBP 20.95 (paper) (2002) (20)
On the codetermination of tax-financed medical R&D and healthcare expenditures: Models and evidence (2018) (19)
Why local governments do not maximize profits: on the value added by the representative institutions of town and city governance (2011) (19)
On the political economy and limits of crisis insurance: the case of the 2008–11 bailouts (2011) (18)
On the Feasibility of a Liberal Welfare State: Agency and Exit Costs in Income Security Clubs (2007) (16)
Economic Conditions and National Elections, Post-Sample Forecasts of the Kramer Equations (1982) (16)
Rational Foundations of Democratic Politics: Economic and Cultural Prerequisites for Democracy (2003) (16)
Applications : rent seeking in practice (2008) (15)
A model of asymmetric bureaucratic inertia and bias (1982) (15)
The Political Economy of Environmental Protection (1996) (15)
Political deadlocks and distributional information: The value of the veil (1992) (14)
Political Efficiency and Equal Protection of the Law (1997) (14)
Informational Limits to Democratic Public Policy (2003) (13)
Generality and the Efficiency of Government Decision Making (2004) (12)
Environmental Policymaking: Assessing the Use of Alternative Policy Instruments (2006) (12)
A Political Efficiency Case for Federalism in Multinational States: Controlling Ethnic Rent-Seeking (2000) (12)
In Defense of Ignorance: On the Significance of a Neglected Form of Incomplete Information (2001) (12)
Coercion, Taxation, and Voluntary Association (2010) (11)
Efficient Mercantilism ? Revenue-Maximizing Monopolization Policies as Ramsey Taxation May 30 , 2008 (2008) (11)
Constitutional Federalism and Decentralization: A Second Best Solution (1994) (11)
Toward a Transactions Cost Theory of Environmental Treaties: Substantive and Symbolic Environmental Agreements* (1995) (11)
Intellectual foundations of public choice, the forest from the trees (2018) (11)
Toward a Rule-Based Model of Human Choice: On the Nature of Homo Constitutionalus (2018) (10)
The politics of government growth (2001) (9)
Behavioral economics and the Virginia school of political economy: overlaps and complementarities (2019) (9)
Perfecting Parliament : Liberalism , Constitutional Reform and the Rise of Western Democracy (2010) (9)
International Public Goods and Agency Problems in Treaty Organizations (2006) (9)
The Political Economy of Rent Creation and Rent Extraction (2019) (9)
Toward a Political Economy of Crisis Management : Rational Choice , Ignorance , and Haste in Political Decision Making (2005) (9)
6. On the Merits of Bicameral Legislatures: Intragovernmental Bargaining and Policy Stability (2005) (8)
Proportional and progressive income taxation with utility-maximizing governments (1979) (8)
Agency problems and the allocation of international environmental grants: the return to Rio (2002) (8)
The constitutional political economy of Gordon Tullock (2009) (8)
The Politics of Debt (1992) (8)
The nature of rent seeking (2015) (7)
Vito Tanzi and Ludger Schuknecht, Public Spending in the 20th Century A Global Perspective (2001) (7)
Rent Seeking and Organizational Governance: Limiting Losses from Intra-Organizational Conflict (2014) (7)
Public choice and the modern welfare state (2013) (7)
Solving Social Dilemmas (2022) (7)
Mutual Advantages of Coercion and Exit within Private Clubs and Treaty Organizations: Towards a Logic of Voluntary Association (2004) (7)
The Nature of Constitutions (2003) (7)
The Future of Public Choice (2003) (6)
Buchanan and the Virginia School (2002) (6)
Monitoring Rent-Seeking Managers: Advantages of Diffuse Ownership (1989) (6)
On the emergence of a classic work: a short history of the impact of Gordon Tullock’s Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft (2019) (6)
Rent-Extraction, Liberalism, and Economic Development (2010) (6)
A Test of the Unraveling Hypothesis: Constitutional Bargaining and the Quality of African Institutions (2014) (6)
Theory of rent seeking (2008) (6)
On the rationality of mutually immiserating coercion (1996) (5)
The institutions of international treaty organizations as evidence for social contract theory (2020) (5)
Governance by true believers: supreme duties with and without totalitarianism (2020) (5)
Federalism and pandemic policies: variety as the spice of life (2021) (5)
America's (Neglected) Debt to the Dutch: An Institutional Perspective (2007) (5)
Voter discernment and candidate entry in pluralitarian election (1998) (4)
Risk-Averse Taxpayers and the Allocation of Tax Enforcement Effort: Law Enforcement or Leviathan? Some Empirical Evidence (2002) (4)
The Moral Voter Hypothesis: Economic and Normative Aspects of Public Policy and Law within Democracies (2007) (4)
On the stability of U.S. politics: post-sample forecasts and refinements of the Congleton–Shughart models of Social Security and Medicare benefit levels (2020) (4)
Informational Limits to Public Policy: Ignorance and the Jury Theorem (2007) (3)
Public Choice and the Modern Welfare State, On the Growth of Government in the Twentieth Century (2010) (3)
Constitutional Exchange in Japan: From Shogunate to Parliamentary Democracy (2006) (3)
Notes on the Financial Crisis and Bailout of 2008 (2009) (3)
Introduction and overview of the political economy of environmental protection (1996) (3)
On Some Neglected, But Profound, Contributions of Gordon Tullock (2013) (3)
From Royal to Parliamentary Rule Without Revolution, Credible Commitments and the Market for Power within Divided Governments (2006) (3)
Is it all about competence? The human capital of U.S. presidents and economic performance (2013) (3)
Thanks to Gordon Tullock (2015) (3)
Non-global social contracts: A note on inefficient social institutions (1983) (3)
GAME THEORY AND PUBLIC POLICY ‐ by Roger A. McCain (2013) (3)
Asymmetric federalism: constitutional and fiscal exchange and the political economy of decentralization (2015) (3)
Constitutional bargaining and the quality of contemporary African institutions: a test of the incremental reform hypothesis (2017) (2)
A test of the institutionally-induced equilibrium hypothesis: on the limited fiscal impact of two celebrity governors (2018) (2)
Ethics and good governance (2020) (2)
Democracy in America: Labor Mobility, Early Liberalism, and Constitutional Reform (2012) (2)
Rent Seeking and Political Institutions (2004) (2)
The Globalization of Politics: Rational Choice and the Internationalization of Public Policy (2007) (2)
Social Science and History: How Predictable Is Political Behavior? (2006) (2)
Politics by principle, not interest: Generality and externality (1998) (1)
Growing up with The Calculus of Consent (2012) (1)
A short history of constitutional liberalism in America (2018) (1)
America’s neglected debt to the Dutch, an institutional perspective (2008) (1)
Curtailing Criminal Modes of Political Speech — — — — — — ✦ — — — — — — (2002) (1)
Return to Rio: Agency problems and the political economy of environmental treaties (1995) (1)
Asymmetric Federalism : Fiscal Exchange , Constitutional Exchange , and the Political Economy of Decentralization (2014) (1)
On the inevitability of divided government and improbability of a complete separation of powers (2013) (1)
How Encompassing is a Dictator's Interest? Interest Groups, Targeted Repression, and Economic Development (2006) (1)
The contractarian constitutional political economy of James Buchanan (2014) (1)
Coping with Unpleasant Surprises in a Complex World: Is Rational Choice Possible in a World with Positive Information Costs? (2011) (1)
Readership and citations as alternative measures of impact (2021) (1)
Perfecting Parliament: The Power of the Purse and Constitutional Reform (2010) (0)
Quantitative Evidence of Gradual Reform (2010) (0)
Rational Ignorance, Rational Expectations, and Fiscal Illusion (1992) (0)
Team Production, Organization, and Governance (2010) (0)
Market restriction and the generality norm (1998) (0)
A Short History of American Liberalism (2014) (0)
The United States, an Exception or Further Illustration? (2010) (0)
Generality and redistribution (1998) (0)
Crisis, Rationality, and Institutions: How Communities Cope with Unpleasant Surprises without Collapsing (2012) (0)
1 Models , Methodologies , and Metaphors on the Move 1 (2005) (0)
Politics by principle, not interest: Generality without uniformity: Social insurance (1998) (0)
Appraising the Performance of the Swedish Constitution (2003) (0)
Does Industrialization Lead to Universal Suffrage ? * (2004) (0)
Why the Conventional Wisdom about the 2008 Financial Crisis Is Still Wrong: Ten Years Later (2020) (0)
The Logic of Collective Action and beyond (2015) (0)
Constitutional Bargaining, Eminent Domain, and (2016) (0)
Constitutional Bargaining, Eminent Domain, and (2016) (0)
Perfecting Parliament: Constitutional Exchange and Divided Governance (2010) (0)
Readership and citations as alternative measures of impact (2021) (0)
Rational Choice and Politics (2019) (0)
Michael C. Munger and Kevin M. Munger, Choosing in groups: analytical politics revisited (2015) (0)
Public Choice II (2005) (0)
On the emergence of a classic work: a short history of the impact of Gordon Tullock’s Welfare Costs of Tariffs, Monopolies, and Theft (2018) (0)
On the Evolution of Organizational Government: Divided Governance and Survival in the Long Run (2011) (0)
Generality, law, and politics (1998) (0)
Candidate Entry in Majoritarian Elections (1991) (0)
The role of information in choice: toward an economic theory of knowledge and decision making (1978) (0)
Behavioral economics and the Virginia school of political economy: overlaps and complementarities (2019) (0)
Parliaments as Governmental Institutions (2018) (0)
Nicolaus Tideman: Collective decisions and voting: The potential for public choice (2007) (0)
Perfecting Parliament: Constitutional Reform in the Netherlands (2010) (0)
Perfecting Parliament: The Swedish Transition to Democracy (2010) (0)
Efficient Mercantilism? Rent Seeking under Leviathan: Buchanan and Tullock Meet Olson and Ramsey (2008) (0)
Constraining Parliamentary Democracy to Advance the Majority’s Interest (2003) (0)
Tullock ’ s Implicit Analytical History of Government 1 (2015) (0)
Book reviews (1994) (0)
The Origins of Territorial Governance (2010) (0)
Michael C. Munger and Kevin M. Munger, Choosing in groups: analytical politics revisited (2015) (0)
The Course of Reform (2003) (0)
Thanks to Gordon Tullock (2015) (0)
Informational Limits to Democratic Public Policy 1 11-2103 (2003) (0)
Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Design (2003) (0)
Ethics and good governance (2020) (0)
On the Evolution of Organizational Government (2011) (0)
Perfecting Parliament: Suffrage without Democracy (2010) (0)
On the stability of U.S. politics: post-sample forecasts and refinements of the Congleton–Shughart models of Social Security and Medicare benefit levels (2019) (0)
On the Origins of Western Democracy (2010) (0)
Intellectual foundations of public choice, the forest from the trees (2018) (0)
Essential Procedural Methods and Constraints for Parliament (2003) (0)
Organizing Governance to Broaden Consensus: Beyond Majority Rule (2003) (0)
Ideology, Interest Groups, and Adult Suffrage (2010) (0)
Politics by principle, not interest: Generality without uniformity: Federalism (1998) (0)
Governance under Constraints (2003) (0)
Fine-Grained Constitutional Bargaining (2010) (0)
Constitutional Reforms of the 1970s and the Performance of Swedish Governance: Statistical Evidence (2003) (0)
Robert D. Tollison and the economics of politics (2017) (0)
Dennis C. Mueller: Reason, religion, and liberal democracy (2010) (0)
A test of the institutionally-induced equilibrium hypothesis: on the limited fiscal impact of two celebrity governors (2018) (0)
Deficit financing and intertemporal discrimination (1998) (0)
Ideas, Interests, and Constitutional Reform (2010) (0)
Economists and the State: What Went Wrong (2015) (0)
The price variability of onions: A matter of interpretation (1981) (0)
The Consequences of Constitutional Reform (2003) (0)
Thoughts on Daniel Shapiro's “Is the welfare state justified?” (2010) (0)
Perfecting Parliament: Liberalism and Reform in the Transformative Century (2010) (0)
On the political economy and limits of crisis insurance: the case of the 2008–11 bailouts (2011) (0)
On the Feasibility of a Liberal Welfare State : Agency , Exit , and Income Security 12-1205 (2005) (0)
Voting By Altruists: Some Electoral Implications of Civic Virtue (2007) (0)
On the Distributional Effects of Political Decision Making, an Overview and Synthesis of Public Choice Research (2008) (0)
Gordon Tullock’s implicit analytical history of government (2016) (0)
Generality and the political agenda (1998) (0)
An Overview of Swedish Constitutional History (2003) (0)
Toward a First-Bestconservation Policy: Cyclic Demand, Externalities, and Political Failure (2007) (0)
Environmental Politics and Economic Development (2004) (0)
Growing up with The Calculus of Consent (2012) (0)
Early Spanish Liberalism and Constitutional Political Economy: The Cádiz Constitution of 1812 (2010) (0)
2010,09: On the evolution of organizational government (2011) (0)
An Overview of British Constitutional History (2010) (0)
The constitutional political economy of (2010) (0)
On the editorial transition (2013) (0)
Robert D. Tollison and the economics of politics (2017) (0)
The constitutional political economy of Gordon Tullock (2012) (0)
Constitutional Reform, Rent Extraction, and Economic Development in China (2011) (0)
Constitutional Bargaining, Eminent Domain, and the Quality of Contemporary African Institutions: A Test of the Incremental Reform Hypothesis (2015) (0)
Generality and the supply of public services (1998) (0)
Constitutional Exchange in the United Kingdom (2010) (0)
On the Political Economy of Privacy: Information Sharing between Friends and Foes (2015) (0)
Democracy in America: Labor Mobility, Ideology, and Constitutional Reform (2009) (0)
Eliminating the off-diagonals (1998) (0)
Gordon Tullock’s implicit analytical history of government (2016) (0)
Organizational Governance in the Long Run (2010) (0)
Extending the argument (1998) (0)
The Political Economy of the Financial Crisis of 2008 (2011) (0)
On the Distributional Effects of Political Decisionmaking, An Overview and Synthesis of Public Choice Research (2009) (0)
Governance by true believers: supreme duties with and without totalitarianism (2020) (0)
Markus J. Prutsch. Making Sense of Constitutional Monarchism in Post-Napoleonic France and Germany. (2014) (0)
The political shape of constitutional order (1998) (0)
Ideas and Interests in Constitutional Reform (2003) (0)
On the Evolution of Organisational Governance (2018) (0)
On the Evolution of Organizational Government1 (2010) (0)
The Electoral Politics of Complex Healthcare Systems (2012) (0)
The Electoral Politics of Subsidized Medical Technology (2016) (0)
Methodological Approach, Limits, and Extensions (2010) (0)
On the editorial transition (2013) (0)
Avinash K. Dixit, The Making of Economic Policy: A Transaction-Cost Politics Perspective (2001) (0)
Improving the Swedish Constitution (2003) (0)
A short history of constitutional liberalism in America (2018) (0)
Perfecting Parliament: The Japanese Transition to Democracy and Back (2010) (0)
On the Political Economy of Privacy in Communities that Include Both Friends and Foes (2016) (0)
Tax-Base Enforcement and Leviathan : On the Allocation of Tax Enforcement Effort (2002) (0)

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Perfecting Parliament