economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …

economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …

key to the quick emergence of an efficient culture of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate … social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the …

of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect … prosocial judges (if institutionally possible), and immediately establish a social norm of high cooperation. This norm appears … to guide subjects' cooperation and punishment choices, including the virtually complete removal of antisocial punishment …

-climate beliefs, behaviors, policy preferences, and novel data on voting for green parties – a particularly consequential outcome to …, and green voting, with voting gains equivalent to a substantial 35% increase. …

different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment …, perceptions of competition faced on-the-job and the treatment effect of job incentives explain these differences in cooperation to … as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report …

whether, for only one game, there is an institution enforcing cooperation and vary also whether the institution is imposed … exogenously or arises endogenously through voting. Our results show that the presence of an institution in one game generally … enhances cooperation in the other game thus documenting a positive spillover effect. These spillover effects are economically …

restrictions on candidate entry need not necessarily reduce electoral competition. In fact, when group sizes are asymmetric …, affirmative action may increase electoral competition and consequently, improve provision of public goods. This happens because in … problem. Affirmative action eliminates this problem and increases within-group competition. We study a randomized caste based …

We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i … that all-can-win competition produces a universal increase in cooperation and benefits a majority of individuals if ….e. when everyone can be a winner. This type of rank-order competition has the advantage that it can eliminate the negative …