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 September 8, 2026
# Paper Title Downloads
1 On the Political Economy of the Financial Crisis and Bailout of 2008–2009 8,238
2 Intellectual Foundations of Public Choice, the Forest from the Trees 5,782
3 Federalism and Pandemic Policies: Variety as the Spice of Life 4,758
4 The Logic of Collective Action and Beyond 3,957
5 Elinor Ostrom, Understanding Institutional Diversity (Book Review) 3,926
6 On the Political Economy and Limits of Crisis Insurance: The Case of the 2008–11 Bailouts 3,503
7 Robert D. Tollison and the Economics of Politics 2,279
8 The Story of Katrina: New Orleans and the Political Economy of Catastrophe 1,780
9 Ethics and Good Governance 1,306
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 1,249
11 Optimal Taxation for Democracies with Less than Perfect Voters: A Public Choice Perspective 1,181
12 Toward a Rule-Based Model of Human Choice: On the Nature of Homo Constitutionalus 1,177
13 A Short History of Constitutional Liberalism in America 1,094
14 Rational Ignorance, Rational Voter Expectations, and Public Policy: A Discrete Informational Foundation for Fiscal Illusion 889
15 Is It All about Competence? The Human Capital of U.S. Presidents and Economic Performance 857
16 Constitutional Political Economy and the Nature and Effects of Rights 722
17 The Contractarian Constitutional Political Economy of James Buchanan 717
18 Behavioral Economics and the Virginia School of Political Economy: Overlaps and Complementarities 625
19 On the Inevitability of Divided Government and Improbability of a Complete Separation of Powers 615
20 The Rise of the Modern Welfare State, Ideology, Institutions, and Income Security: Analysis and Evidence 556

Total accesses 45,211

Checked but below 500

A Theory of Menu Federalism (488) · America's Neglected Debt to the Dutch (436) · On the Stability of U.S. Politics / Social Security & Medicare (424) · A Test of the Institutionally Induced Equilibrium Hypothesis / celebrity governors (411) · On the Durability of King and Council (378) · Why Local Governments Do Not Maximize Profits (363) · The Constitutional Political Economy of Gordon Tullock (326) · Gordon Tullock's Implicit Analytical History of Government (288) · Rent Seeking in a Constitutional Context (271, 2026) · Informational Limits to Democratic Public Policy (257) · Readership and Citations as Alternative Measures of Impact (255) · Thanks to Gordon Tullock (225) · On the Feasibility of a Liberal Welfare State (162).

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