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An Economic Theory of Democracy.

1958 • 19,036 citations

The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice

1981 • 16,265 citations

Are Government Bonds Net Wealth?

1974 • 6,026 citations

A Rational Theory of the Size of Government

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Bureaucracy and representative government

1971 • 5,156 citations

The Economic Approach to Human Behavior

1976 • 4,887 citations

A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence

1983 • 4,186 citations

The Political Business Cycle

1975 • 3,770 citations

Toward a More General Theory of Regulation

1976 • 2,846 citations

A Theory of the Consumption Function

1960 • 2,411 citations

The Expansion of the Public Economy: A Comparative Analysis

1978 • 2,103 citations

MACROECONOMICS OF UNBALANCED GROWTH: THE ANATOMY OF THE URBAN CRISES

1967 • 2,098 citations

The Affluent Society

1958 • 2,066 citations

The fiscal crisis of the state

1973 • 2,003 citations

The Political Economy of Benefits and Costs: A Neoclassical Approach to Distributive Politics

1981 • 1,761 citations

The Politics of the Budgetary Process

1965 • 1,601 citations

Macroeconomics of Unbalanced Growth: The Anatomy of Urban Crisis

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Political Control of the Economy.

1979 • 1,383 citations

Political resource allocation, controlled agendas, and the status quo

1978 • 1,143 citations

Bureaucrats and Politicians

1975 • 1,038 citations

Private Demands for Public Goods

1973 • 992 citations

The Demand for the Services of Non-Federal Governments

1972 • 910 citations

The End of Liberalism

1979 • 862 citations

Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970

1976 • 770 citations

Capture and Ideology in the Economic Theory of Politics

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Searching for Leviathan: An Empirical Study.

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Constituent Interest and Congressional Voting

1984 • 559 citations

A history of taxation and expenditure in the Western world

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The Growth of Government

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Taxation by Regulation

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Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1979.

1980 • 433 citations

General Economic Conditions and National Elections

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Self-Interest, Ideology, and Logrolling in Congressional Voting

1979 • 414 citations

Director's Law of Public Income Redistribution

1970 • 389 citations

Tests of a rational theory of the size of government

1983 • 375 citations

THE RISING COST OF LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICES: SOME EVIDENCE AND REFLECTIONS

1969 • 359 citations

Budgets and Bureaucrats: The Sources of Government Growth

1978 • 357 citations

Approaches To the Analysis of Government Expenditure Growth

1979 • 350 citations

Macroeconomics and micropolitics: The electoral effects of economic issues

1984 • 328 citations

Revenue structure, fiscal illusion, and budgetary choice

1976 • 323 citations

FISCAL ILLUSION, POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS, AND LOCAL PUBLIC SPENDING

1978 • 297 citations

Macroeconomics and Micropolitics: The Electoral Effects of Economic Issues, by D. Roderick Kiewiet

1984 • 286 citations

The Political Business Cycle: An Empirical Test

1978 • 281 citations

Revenue structure, fiscal illusion, and budgetary choice: Reply

1977 • 247 citations

The Conditions of Economic Progress

1960 • 245 citations

Fiscal Federalism and Grants-In-Aid

1979 • 225 citations

Testing political economy’s ‘as if’ proposition: is the median income voter really decisive?

1978 • 214 citations

Public Expenditures in Communist and Capitalist Nations.

1970 • 209 citations

The Ethics of Competition and Other Essays.

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The Conditions of Economic Progress.

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State and Local Fiscal Behavior and Federal Grant Policy

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A Theory of the Consumption Function

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Voters, bureaucrats and legislators

1978 • 157 citations

Government and the Cost of Exchange in History

1984 • 148 citations

Earnings Differentials between the Public and Private Sectors

1979 • 145 citations

The economic approach to human behavior

1978 • 139 citations

Public Expenditures in Communist and Capitalist Nations.

1969 • 138 citations

The Growth of Public Expenditures: Nine Modes of Explanation

1975 • 131 citations

Deficits, government spending, and inflation

1978 • 128 citations

WAGNER'S LAW, FISCAL INSTITUTIONS, AND THE GROWTH OF GOVERNMENT

1977 • 122 citations

A Demand Model for the Local Public Sector

1978 • 102 citations

An econometric model with an endogenous government sector

1975 • 99 citations

Comment from an unreconstructed Ricardian

1978 • 91 citations

Public Spending for Higher Education: An Empirical Test of Two Hypotheses

1976 • 88 citations

Voting on Minimum Wages: A Time-Series Analysis

1978 • 86 citations

An econometric model with an endogenous government sector

1979 • 83 citations

Competition, Monopoly, and the Organization of Government in Metropolitan Areas

1975 • 83 citations

THE EXPANDING PUBLIC SECTOR: SOME CONTRARY EVIDENCE

1976 • 81 citations

The expanding public sector: Wagner squared

1977 • 81 citations

Anatomy of Government Deficiencies

1983 • 79 citations

Why Government Grows (and Grows) in a Democracy

1976 • 79 citations

The Growth of Government Spending in Canada

1971 • 71 citations

Post-Fisc Distributions of Income in 1950, 1961, and 1970

1977 • 66 citations

Political Control of the Economy

1979 • 61 citations

Pathways to tax reform

1973 • 61 citations

The Birth of a Transfer Society

1982 • 58 citations

ECONOMIC MANIPULATION FOR POLITICAL PROFIT: MACROECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES AND CONSTITUTIONAL IMPLICATIONS

1977 • 56 citations

THE DEMAND FOR LOCAL PUBLIC GOODS: ELASTICITIES OF DEMAND FOR OWN PRICE, CROSS PRICES, AND INCOME

1977 • 53 citations

The expenditure effects of alternative public supply institutions

1979 • 47 citations

A positive theory of in-kind transfers and the negative income tax

1985 • 46 citations

American Government Expenditures: A Historical Perspective

1982 • 43 citations

The Publicness of Local Public Goods: Evidence from Ontario Municipalities

1981 • 43 citations

Growth of Government in the West

1978 • 43 citations

The Growth of Government Spending in Canada

1971 • 42 citations

Does Government in a Representative Democracy Follow a Majority of Voters’ Preferences? — An Empirical Examination

1983 • 41 citations

The Birth of a Transfer Society

1981 • 41 citations

PRIVATE CHOICE AND COLLECTIVE OUTCOMES: EVIDENCE FROM PUBLIC SECTOR DEMAND ANALYSIS

1977 • 41 citations

Budget-maximizing governmental agencies: An empirical test

1981 • 38 citations

The Growth of Public Employment in Great Britain

1957 • 37 citations

Public Sector Performance: A Conceptual Turning Point

1985 • 36 citations

On the Growth of Government and the Political Economy of Legislation

1986 • 34 citations

Reflections on the political economy of government: the persistent growth of government

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Policy Analysis and Deductive Reasoning

1985 • 25 citations

Bureaucracy, monopoly, and the demand for municipal services

1980 • 23 citations

On the mutuality of interests between bureaus and high demand review committees: A perverse result

1979 • 23 citations

The political economy of inflation in the United States

1985 • 23 citations

Legislative Facilitation of Government Growth: Universalism and Reciprocity Practices in Majority Rule Institutions

1978 • 17 citations

Income Inequality, Trends and International Comparisons

1981 • 17 citations

Inflation and the Personal Income Tax: An International Perspective.

1982 • 16 citations

The Political Economy of Inflation in the United States

1984 • 15 citations

Post-Industrial Society.

1980 • 15 citations

The Question of Government Spending. Public Needs and Private Wants

1960 • 13 citations

The Growth of Government

1979 • 13 citations

PUBLIC CHOICE AND PUBLIC SPENDING

1978 • 12 citations

The Growth of Public Employment in Canada

1980 • 11 citations

Comment from academic scribbler

1978 • 10 citations

The future of business regulation: Private action and public demand

1979 • 9 citations

Generating Growth in Public Expenditures: the Role of Employee and Constituent Demand

1979 • 9 citations

Taxing and Spending Policy

1982 • 9 citations

Markets, planning and development: The private and public sectors in economic development

1977 • 8 citations

Public Sector Behavior: The Status of the Political Business Cycle

1981 • 7 citations

Inflation and the Personal Income Tax: An International Perspective.

1981 • 5 citations

The Costs of Government Regulation

1977 • 5 citations

Patterns of government revenue and expenditure in developing countries and their relevance to policy

1979 • 3 citations

Individual Preferences and Public Policy

1981 • 2 citations

The Growth of Public Employment in Great Britain.

1958 • 2 citations

Interpretations Of Public Expenditure Trends In East And West

1983 • 1 citations

Public Supply of Private Goods

1980 • 1 citations

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1955 • 0 citations