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The unfinished business of public choice

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Over the past fifty years, the public choice research program has generated important insights into collective decision-making processes, especially as they operate within the political institutions of Europe and North America. Despite a half-century of progress, a great deal of unfinished business remains on the public choice research agenda. In the course of assessing the current state of the literature, as represented in the contributions to this special issue of Public Choice, this essay identifies some of the unanswered questions.

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  1. Department of Economics, The University of Mississippi, P.O. Box 1848, University, MS, 38677-1848, USA

    William F. Shughart II

  2. John E. Walker Department of Economics, Clemson University, 222 Sirrine Hall, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA

    Robert D. Tollison

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Shughart, W.F., Tollison, R.D. The unfinished business of public choice. Public Choice 124, 237–247 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-005-4765-9

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