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A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures

1956 • 12,771 citations

The American Economic Review

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The Pure Theory of Public Expenditure

1954 • 7,000 citations

Bureaucracy and representative government

1971 • 5,156 citations

Human Capital. A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education

1965 • 5,072 citations

An Economic Theory of Democracy

1960 • 4,720 citations

Social Choice and Individual Values

1952 • 4,679 citations

A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence

1983 • 4,186 citations

Rank-Order Tournaments as Optimum Labor Contracts

1981 • 4,164 citations

The Calculus of Consent

1960 • 3,533 citations

Investment in Human Capital and Personal Income Distribution

1958 • 3,390 citations

The Theory of Committees and Elections.

1959 • 2,908 citations

On the Rationale of Group Decision-making

1948 • 2,383 citations

A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare

1950 • 1,941 citations

The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets

1988 • 1,541 citations

The Power to Tax: Analytical Foundations of a Fiscal Constitution.

1981 • 1,467 citations

Bureaucrats and Politicians

1975 • 1,038 citations

Why Democracies Produce Efficient Results

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Diagrammatic Exposition of a Theory of Public Expenditure

1955 • 779 citations

Public policies, pressure groups, and dead weight costs

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Classics in the Theory of Public Finance

1958 • 586 citations

DECENTRALISATION AS AN INCENTIVE SCHEME

1987 • 536 citations

Toward a general theory of managerial discretion

1974 • 452 citations

Coalitions and Cabinet Government

1990 • 444 citations

Director's Law of Public Income Redistribution

1970 • 389 citations

Unionism and Relative Wages in the United States.

1965 • 381 citations

The Demand and Supply of Public Goods.

1969 • 354 citations

The Voluntary Exchange Theory of Public Economy

1939 • 317 citations

Public Finance in Democratic Process. Fiscal Institutions and Individual Choice.

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The Logic of Bureaucratic Conduct

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Group politics and public policy

1986 • 272 citations

The Fire of Truth: A Remembrance of Law and Economics at Chicago, 1932-1970

1983 • 237 citations

The Equilibrium Size of a Budget-maximizing Bureau: A Note on Niskanen's Theory of Bureaucracy

1975 • 236 citations

The Economics of Earmarked Taxes

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1964 • 181 citations

Tax assignment in federal countries

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PUBLIC FINANCE AND PUBLIC CHOICE

1975 • 67 citations

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Public Economics: An Analysis of Public Production and Consumption and Their Relations to the Private Sector.

1971 • 32 citations

THE DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH AND THE EFFICIENCY OF INSTITUTIONS

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The organization of competition in congressional and parliamentary governments

1991 • 18 citations

The Competitive state : Villa Colombella papers on competitive politics

1991 • 13 citations