Public Choice
Last updated ISSN 0048-5829
Public Choice is published by Springer Science+Business Media in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,090.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Public Choice concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Fiscal Policies and Political Economy
- Game Theory and Voting Systems
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
- Economic theories and models
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0048-5829, 1573-7101, 1941-9716 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,090 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,711 |
| Publishing since | 1950 |
| Journal website | link.springer.com/journal/11127 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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