I efteråret 2012 afholdt vi en workshop i anledning af Martin Paldams 70-års fødselsdag. En række papirer, der blev præsenteret ved workshoppen og enkelte andre fra workshoppens deltagere er nu samlet i et særnummer af Public Choice, udkom forleden dag. Særnummeret, der er volume 157 (3), er arrangeret omkring en række temaer, som Martin har arbejdet med. Vi mener bestemt, der er værd at tage et kig på. Indholdet er, bortset fra en introduktion skrevet af Toke Aidt, Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard, Gert Svendsen og mig:
The VP-function revisited: a survey of the literature on vote and popularity functions after over 40 years, Michael Lewis-Beck og Mary Stegmaier
Conditional political budget cycles: a review of recent evidence, Jakob de Haan og Jeroen Klomp
Voting functions in the EU-15, Linda Goncalves Veiga
Economic performance and turnout at national and local elections, Rodrigo Martins og Francisco José Veiga
Institutional interactions and economic growth: the joint effects of property rights, veto players and democratic capital, Mogens Kamp Justesen og Peter Kurrild-Klitgaard
Institutions and savings in developing and emerging economies, Andreas Freytag og Sebastian Voll
Democratization and the size of government: evidence from the long 19th century, Toke Aidt og Peter S. Jensen
The influence of direct democracy on the shadow economy, Désirée Teobaldelli og Friedrich Schneider
Inter-country differences in voter satisfaction with the democratic process: a study of world elections, Vani Borooah, Anastasios Katos og Eleni Katsouli
Why does bureaucratic corruption occur in the EU?, Urs Steiner Brandt og Gert Tinggaard Svendsen
Does aid improve democracy and governance? A meta-regression analysis, Zohid Askarov og Chris Doucouliagos
Trust as an alternative to risk, Eric M. Uslaner
Is trust the missing root of institutions, education, and development?, Christian Bjørnskov og Pierre-Guillaume Méon
The size of human capital externalities: cross-country evidence, Rasmus Thönnessen og Erich Gundlach