public choice

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One example would be investing in bike lanes and public transport while blocking cars from city centres to sway public choice.

From Reuters • Apr. 4, 2022

Those laws inspired the economist Bruce Yandle to coin a term that's become common in the branch of economics called public choice theory: "bootleggers and Baptists".

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2019

Frankly, one suspects the classic public choice problem: regulators who have no direct experience with the activity they propose to regulate.

From Washington Post • Aug. 13, 2019

What public choice theory does is it deromanticizes government.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2019

The essential part of the custom lay in the public choice of a fitting mate for marriageable girls.

From The Task of Social Hygiene by Ellis, Havelock