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We experimentally study the disincentive effect of taxing work and redistributing tax revenues when redistribution is imposed vs. democratically chosen in a vote. We find a “dividend of democracy” in the sense that the disincentive effect is substantially smaller when redistribution is...
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more often than simple majority. In a series of laboratory experiments, we investigate how various rules affect the outcome …
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in a social media environment on voting behavior. Our results show that mandatory disclosure of interests, in combination …
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the launch of the project. Examples are the Kyoto protocol, voting with different weights (shareholders, the UN with the … contributions is a Pareto-improvement to every original threshold. The contribution probabilities of some player types defined by …
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-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. …
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-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. …
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Under simple majority voting an absolute majority of voters may choose policies that are harmful to minorities. It is … the purpose of sub- and super-majority rules to protect legitimate minority interests. We study how voting rules are … choose voting rules for given distributions of gains and losses that can arise from a policy, but before learning their own …
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interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …, and of gender and intelligence. -- Public good ; voluntary contribution ; formal sanction ; experiment ; penalty ; voting …
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of public goods ; threshold ; voting ; experiments …Introducing a threshold in the sense of a minimal project size transforms a public goods game with an inefficient … thresholds are ineffective at best and often counter-productive. This holds under a range of threshold levels and refund rates …
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groups leads to a larger proportion of subjects voting for formal sanctions. This result is mainly driven by subjects in …
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