Contemporary studies of politics highlight the significance of public activism and participation in governance. These mechanisms and the formulation of public policies foster interaction between institutions and society, promoting democracy, transparency, cohesion, and inclusiveness. However,...

This study investigates the effects of unfair enforcement of institutional rules on public good contributions, personal and social norms, and trust. In a preregistered online experiment (n = 1,038), we find that biased institutions reduce rule compliance compared to fair institutions. However,...

Social norms are an important barrier to gender convergence. We show that public policy designed to promote gender equality at home can pave the way towards gender convergence by shaping gender norms in the next generation. We combine the introduction of paternity leave in Spain with a...

Australian attitudes towards women remain more conservative than in many other OECD countries. We examine the effect of these norms on female labour outcomes and intrahousehold dynamics using a peer effects model and nearly two decades of longitudinal household survey data. Our results indicate...

We propose a model where competing leaders influence the social norm adopted in their group provided it is optimal for their members. Individuals are instrumental in enforcing such social norm through peer punishment. We show that there is a unique equilibrium in which there is either a...

Over the past three decades norms research has become a subfield that matters beyond the boundaries of the discipline of International Relations. Like other such generative processes this subfield’s path is marked by debates over conceptual and methodological preferences. This book argues that...

We experimentally investigate the relationship between unethical behaviors through misreporting choices in the workplace and the perceived social inappropriateness of these unethical decisions. We conducted a norm-elicitation experiment in which we considered two unethical actions as observed in...

The Theory of Dyadic Morality (TDM; Schein and Gray (2018)) posits that immorality judgments emerge from norm violations, harm perceptions, and negative affect. We test this core prediction in an applied setting: voluntary payment settings, such as the Pay-What-You-Want mechanism. In our study,...