Public Choice - Best Paper Awards
The editors of Public Choice are pleased to announce their selections for the best papers published during calendar year 2023.
The Duncan Black Prize for the best article contributed by a senior scholar or scholars is awarded to Casey Mulligan (University of Chicago) for:
Public Choice 196. 1-18 (July 2023)
The Gordon Tullock Prize for the best article contributed by a younger scholar or scholars is awarded to Rik Chakraborti (Christopher Newport University) and Gavin Roberts (Weber State University) for:
Public Choice 196. 51-83 (July 2023)
The prizes carry honoraria of $1,000 each. The honorarium for the Duncan Black Prize is funded by the Public Choice Society; SpringerNature, the publisher of Public Choice, funds the honorarium for the Gordon Tullock Prize.
Previous Winners of the Duncan Black Prize and the Gordon Tullock Prize:
2022 Duncan Black Prize
“Emergencies: on the misuse of government powers” (this opens in a new tab)
Christian Bjørnskov & Stefan Voigt
2022 Tullock Prize
"The institutional foundations of surf break governance in Atlantic Europe" (this opens in a new tab)
Martin Rode
2021 Duncan Black Prize
"Bootleggers, Baptists and ballots: coalitions in Arkansas’ alcohol-legalization election" (this opens in a new tab)
Jeremy Horpedahl
2021 Tullock Prize
"The interest group origins of the Bank of France" (this opens in a new tab)
Louis Rouanet
2020 Duncan Black Prize
"Pot and ladle: a formula for estimating the distribution of seats under the Jefferson–D’Hondt method (this opens in a new tab)"
Jarosław Flis, Wojciech Słomczyński, and Dariusz Stolicki
2020 Tullock Prize
"Political connections, political favoritism and political competition: evidence from the granting of building permits by French mayors (this opens in a new tab)"
Christophe Lévêque
2019 Duncan Black Prize
“Is Civic Duty the Solution to the Paradox of Voting (this opens in a new tab)?”
Abel Francois & Olivier Gergaud
2019 Tullock Prize
“Titles for Me but not for Thee: Transitional Gains Trap of Property Rights Extension in Colombia (this opens in a new tab)”
Perry Ferrell
2018 Duncan Black Prize
“Distributive Politics and Congressional Voting: Public Lands in the Jacksonian Era (this opens in a new tab)”
Sean Gailmard & Jeffery A. Jenkins
2018 Tullock Prize
“The Lightship in Economics (this opens in a new tab)”
Rosolino A. Candela & Vincent J. Geloso
2017 Duncan Black Prize
“The Supermajority Core of the US Senate and the Failure to Join the League of Nations (this opens in a new tab)”
Gyung-Ho Jeong
2017 Tullock Prize
“The Downsides of Information Transmission and Voting (this opens in a new tab)”
Keith E. Schnakenberg
2016 Duncan Black Prize
“Ballot Order Effects in Direct Democracy Elections (this opens in a new tab)”
John G. Matsusaka
2016 Tullock Prize
“Interjurisdictional Competition and the Married Women’s Property Acts (this opens in a new tab)”
Jayme S. Lemke