Die akademische Literatur liefert zahlreiche Beispiele dafür, wie Konflikte bezüglich der Verteilung von Ressourcen Wahlen, politische Präferenzen sowie Handeln und somit auch das politische Alltagsgeschehen beeinflussen. Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht solche Prozesse und illustriert...

Die akademische Literatur liefert zahlreiche Beispiele dafür, wie Konflikte bezüglich der Verteilung von Ressourcen Wahlen, politische Präferenzen sowie Handeln und somit auch das politische Alltagsgeschehen beeinflussen. Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht solche Prozesse und illustriert...

When do societies succeed in providing public goods? Previous research suggests that public goods contributions correlate with expectations about cooperation by others among students and other demographic subgroups. However, we lack knowledge about whether the effect of expected cooperation is...

The traditional political economy account of global climate change governance directs our attention to fundamental collective action problems associated with global public goods provision, resulting from positive or negative externalities as well as freeriding. The governance architecture of the...

Recent research suggests that there is substantial public support (including willingness to pay) for forest conservation. Based on a nationwide survey experiment in Brazil (N = 2500) the largest and richest of the world's tropical developing countries, we shed new light on this issue. To what...

While most explanations of individual trade policy preferences center on the re-distributional implications of trade, recent research is particularly interested in the role of non-economic determinants. We join the latter line of work by studying the effect of a fundamental socio-psychological...