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Law and Political Science
Australia
2023
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Political Science
Australia
2023

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D-Index
42
Citations
15754
World Ranking
2008
National Ranking
49

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Geoffrey Brennan was affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research primarily spanned the social sciences, with a particular focus on political science and international relations. They contributed to multiple subfields including economics and econometrics, cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, and applied psychology.

Their work addressed a range of topics, notably political philosophy and ethics, economic theory and institutions, electoral systems and political participation, populism and right-wing movements, social policy and reform studies, optimism and well-being, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Geoffrey Brennan published articles in several academic venues. Prominent among these were:

  • Homo Oeconomicus
  • Australian Economic Papers
  • American Political Science Review
  • Human Affairs
  • Philosophical Studies

Their recent papers included:

  • Moving toward the Median: Compulsory Voting and Political Polarization, 2024, American Political Science Review
  • Real world theory, complacency, and aspiration, 2020, Philosophical Studies
  • Sugden's community of advantage, 2021, Journal of Economic Methodology
  • Self-esteem and social esteem: Is Adam Smith right?, 2020, Human Affairs
  • An Albertian View of Buchanan's Contractarianism, 2022, Homo Oeconomicus

Throughout their career, they collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Hartmut Kliemt, Mark Weder, David A. Leonard, Jakob B. Madsen, and Abhisek Mishra.

Best Publications

  • The power to tax : analytical foundations of a fiscal constitution

    H. Geoffrey Brennan;James M. Buchanan

  • Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference

    H. Geoffrey Brennan;Loren E. Lomasky

  • The theory of institutional design

    Robert E. Goodin

  • The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy

    H. Geoffrey Brennan;James M. Buchanan

  • The Economy of Esteem: An Essay on Civil and Political Society

    H. Geoffrey Brennan;Philip Pettit

  • Towards a tax constitution for Leviathan

    Geoffrey Brennan;Geoffrey Brennan;James M. Buchanan

  • Democracy and Decision

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  • The power to tax

    Geoffrey Brennan

  • Democratic devices and desires

    Geoffrey Brennan;Alan Hamlin

  • Democratic devices and desires

    H. Geoffrey Brennan;Alan P. Hamlin

  • Expressive voting and electoral equilibrium

    Geoffrey Brennan;Alan Hamlin

  • Voter Choice: Evaluating Political Alternatives

    Geoffrey Brennan;James Buchanan

  • Democracy and decision

    Geoffrey Brennan

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

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  • On Political representation

    Geoffrey Brennan;Alan P. Hamlin

  • The Economy of Esteem

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  • The Reason of Rules

    Geoffrey Brennan;James Buchanan

  • The Power to Tax

    Geoffrey Brennan;James M. Buchanan

  • Is Public Choice Immoral? The Case for the "Nobel" Lie

    Geoffrey Brennan;James M. Buchanan

  • The Economy of Esteem

    H Geoffrey Brennan;Philip Pettit

  • Unveiling the Vote

    Philip Pettit;Geoffrey Brennan

  • Tax instruments as constraints on the disposition of public revenues

    Geoffrey Brennan;Geoffrey Brennan;James M. Buchanan

  • The Reason of Rules

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  • Monopoly in Money and Inflation: The Case for a Constitution to Discipline Government.

    H. Geoffrey Brennan;James M. Buchanan

  • Attitudes toward private and collective risk in individual and strategic choice situations

    Geoffrey Brennan;Luis G. González;Werner Güth;M. Vittoria Levati;M. Vittoria Levati

  • The normative purpose of economic ‘science’: Rediscovery of an eighteenth century method

    Geoffrey Brennan;James Buchanan

  • The Impartial Spectator Goes to Washington: Toward a Smithian Theory of Electoral Behavior

    Geoffrey Brennan;Loren Lomasky

  • Hands invisible and intangible

    Geoffrey Brennan;Philip Pettit

  • The hidden economy of esteem

    H Geoffrey Brennan;Philip Pettit

  • The Feasibility Issue

    H Geoffrey Brennan;Philip Pettit

  • The Distributional Implications of Public Goods

    Geoffrey Brennan

  • Revenue Implications of Money Creation under Leviathan

    Geoffrey Brennan;James Buchanan

  • The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy.

    John Broome;Geoffrey Brennan;James M. Buchanan

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip Pettit
Philip Pettit Princeton University
Robert E. Goodin
Robert E. Goodin Australian National University
Werner Güth
Werner Güth Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
Michael C. Munger
Michael C. Munger Duke University
Robert D. Tollison
Robert D. Tollison Clemson University
Gordon Tullock
Gordon Tullock George Mason University
Thomas G. McGuire
Thomas G. McGuire Harvard University
Robert D. Cooter
Robert D. Cooter University of California, Berkeley
Susan Rose-Ackerman
Susan Rose-Ackerman Yale University
Frank Jackson
Frank Jackson Australian National University

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