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Wie wählt Europa? Das polymorphe Wahlsystem zum Europäischen Parlament

Nohlen, Dieter - 2004

Mit der Neuwahl des Europäischen Parlaments (EP) nach der bislang größten Erweiterung der Europäischen Union (EU) steht das Verfahren, wie diese nun 732 Mitglieder umfassende Versammlung gewählt wird, erneut zur Debatte. Denn nach wie vor ist das Wahlrecht zum EP im Wesentlichen national...

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The effect of electoral systems on voter turnout : evidence from a natural experiment

Sanz, Carlos

En este artículo se explota el marco institucional de las elecciones municipales españolas, en las que se utilizan distintos sistemas electorales dependiendo del número de habitantes del municipio, según lo establecido por la Ley. Mediante una regresión discontinua, se compara la...

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Distributing the Benefits from the Commons

Silvestre, Joaquim - 1993

"The common-property literature has often focused on the question of efficiency. Here we consider distributional issues instead. How should the benefits of the commons (say, a fishery) be distributed? We approach the question from the viewpoint of ownership rather than income redistribution. "A...

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Foundations for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

Ahn, Toh-Kyeong - 2001

"Institutional approaches to social dilemmas have so far focused on how to create incentive structures that channel individuals' behavior into socially desirable outcomes assuming that everyone is selfish. However, the presumption of universal selfishness is not only empirically invalid but may...

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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Herr, Andrew - 1996

of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader …

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Essays on Individual Behavior in Social Dilemma Environments: An Experimental Analysis

Dudley, Dean - 1993

"In this study, individual level behavior is investigated in the context of computer assisted voluntary contribution mechanism public good (VCM) provision experiments and common pool resource (CPR) appropriation experiments. Previous studies of these environments have concentrated on aggregate...

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Salience and Its Implications for Common-Pool Resource Management in Scotland: A Tragedy of a Different Kind?

Brown, Katrina Myrvang; Slee, Bill - 2002

"In past contributions to CPR theory, the issue of salience/dependence on a resource has been flagged up as a one of a … high. However, cases do exist of CPRs in which this assumption does not hold, and consequently, related theory proves to be … into question the possibility and utility of constructing a coherent CPR meta-theory." …

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Institutional Equilibrium and Equilibrium Institutions

Shepsle, Kenneth A. - 1983

"This theme paper focuses on political institutions and their effects on social choice. Institutions are argued to play a mediating rolebetween the preferences of individuals and social choices. In addition to playing an endogenous role in molding and channeling preferences, institutions...

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Chaos on the Commons: Considering the Implications of Nonequilibrium Theory for Common Property Research

Morgan, Betty - 1995

"The rapidly emerging 'new science' of nonequilibrium systems theory may offer common property researchers and scholars …. Deriving from the dynamical holism of quantum physics, nonequilibrium theory engages the spontaneity, chaos, interrelatedness … paper explores the aspects of nonequilibrium theory which may be instructive in an expanded vision of common property …

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Testing a Coordination Process for Shared Goods: The Possibility of Successful Collective Action

Loehman, Edna T.; Rassenti, Stephen J. - 1997

"This paper reports the design and testing of a coordination process for finding a group agreement simultaneously about cost sharing and the nature of a shared good. The process was designed to search for a cost sharing equilibrium, a particular type of Pareto optimum. The cost share equilibrium...

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