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ask if decision makers are blamed for being pivotal if they implement an unpopular outcome in a sequential voting process …. We conduct an experimental voting game in which decision makers vote about the allocation of money between themselves and … recipients without voting rights. We measure responsibility attributions for voting decisions by eliciting the monetary …
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the launch of the project. Examples are the Kyoto protocol, voting with different weights (shareholders, the UN with the …
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-riding. However, people also obey law backed by mild sanctions if it is accepted in a referendum. We show that voting for mild law …
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situations in which the adoption of this institution is endogenously decided via majority voting to situations in which it is …
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We conduct an experiment to investigate (i) whether rotation in voting increases a committee's efficiency, and (ii) the … important consequences: it 'pays' to be allowed to vote, as voting committee members earn significantly more than non-voting …
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A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …
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We study endogenous group formation in tournaments employing experimental three-player contests. We find that players in endogenously formed alliances cope better with the moral hazard problem in groups than players who are forced into an alliance. Also, players who are committed to expending...
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Public choice theory has originally been motivated by the need to correct the asymmetry, widespread in traditional welfare economics, between the motivational assumptions of market participants and policymakers: Those who played the game of politics should also be considered rational and...
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Explaining individual behavior in politics should rely on the same motivational assumptions as explaining behavior in the market: That’s what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes, is all about. In its standard variant, those who...
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values. The SSPI can serve as a control for power imbedded in voting blocs, permitting fuller analysis of other factors that …
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