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Working Papers

Working Papers are research articles that have been submitted to the Independent Institute or written by our Fellows, but have not yet been published or peer reviewed. Independent maintains this index of working papers in order to help disseminate, discuss, and improve important ideas. Authors welcome informed comments. If you would like to submit your paper for possible inclusion please email the paper’s abstract to Independent’s Research Director, William F. Shughart II.

The Effect of Electoral Institutions on Tort Awards
Runaway Judges? Selection Effects and the Jury
Has Leviathan Been Bound?
A Theory of Imperfectly Constrained Government with Evidence from the States
The Logic of Collective Belief
When Is Two Better than One?
How Federalism Mitigates and Intensifies Imperfect Political Competition
Standing Tiebout on His Head
Tax Capitalization and the Monopoly Power of Local Governments
Rational Irrationality and the Microfoundations of Political Failure
Litigation versus Legislation
Forum Shopping by Rent-Seekers
Effects of Criminal Procedure on Crime Rates
Mapping Out the Consequences of The Exclusionary Rule
The Anomaly of Off-Label Drug Prescriptions
The Statute that Time Forgot
18 U.S.C. Section 3501 and the Overhauling of Miranda
New Anti-Merger Theories
The State: Agent or Proprietor?
Freedom of Speech, Information Privacy, and the Troubling Implications of a Right to Stop People from Speaking About You
An Introduction to Economics as a Moral Science
Freedom of Speech, Cyberspace, Harassment Law, and the Clinton Administration
Cooption and Repression in the Soviet Union
Islands in a Sea of Obligation: Limits on the Duty To Rescue
Settlement and the Decline of Private Prosecution in Thirteenth-Century England
Democracy, Spontaneous Order and Peace
Implications for the Classical Liberal Critique of Democratic Politics
What Larry Doesn’t Get
A Libertarian Response to Lessig’s Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
Conflicts of Interest in the Hollywood Film Industry
Public Versus Private Initiative in Arctic Exploration
The Effects of Incentives and Organizational Structure
Constitutional Design and Economic Freedom
Do Parties Benefit from Electoral Manipulation?
Electoral Laws and Heresthetics in Poland, 1989-1993


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