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Democracy and compliance in public goods games

Gallier, Carlo - 2017

I investigate if, how, and why the effect of a contribution rule in a public goods game depends on how it is implemented: endogenously chosen or externally imposed. The rule prescribes full contributions to the public good backed by a nondeterrent sanction for those who do not comply. My...

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Institutional endogeneity and third-party punishment in social dilemmas

Marcin, Isabel; Robalo, Pedro; Tausch, Franziska - 2016

This paper studies experimentally how the endogeneity of sanctioning institutions affects the severity of punishment in social dilemmas. We allow individuals to vote on the introduction of third-party-administered sanctions, and compare situations in which the adoption of this institution is...

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics

Epper, Thomas - 2020

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Support for redistribution may also be affected by altruistic and egalitarian preferences, but knowledge about the distribution of these preferences in the broader population and...

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A Political Reciprocity Mechanism

Pongou, Roland - 2020

This paper considers the problem faced by a political authority that has to design a legislative mechanism that guarantees the selection of policies that are stable, efficient, and inclusive in the sense of strategically protecting minority interests. Experimental studies suggest that some of...

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Democracy and Compliance in Public Goods Games

Gallier, Carlo - 2020

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Other-regarding preferences and redistributive politics

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Sennt, Julien - 2021 - Revised version, December 2021

Increasing inequality and associated egalitarian sentiments have again put redistribution on the political agenda. Other-regarding preferences may also affect support for redistribution, but knowledge about their distribution in the broader population and how they are associated with political...

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Communication and Information in Games of Collective Decision : A Survey of Experimental Results

Martinelli, César - 2018

; (iii) elections with more than two alternatives; (iv) electoral competition and democratic accountability with imperfect … the behavior of players in voting games. Specifically, the welfare of the group of reference induced by the experiment … (which may not be the entire “society” participating in the experiment) seems to be an effective motivation in several cases …

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Other-Regarding Preferences and Redistributive Politics

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2022

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Laboratory Elections with Endogenous Turnout : Proportional Representation versus Majoritarian Rule

Kartal, Melis - 2014

I investigate the impact of proportional representation (PR) and majoritarian rule (MR) on voter turnout and minority representation using theory and experiments. Numerous empirical studies have compared turnout across PR and MR. However, the empirical evidence is mixed. I show theoretically and...

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The perks of being in the smaller team : incentives in overlapping contests

March, Christoph; Sahm, Marco - 2019

-divisional contests. Second, competition in the intra-divisional contest is less fierce. Both effects induce a higher marginal utility of … effort provision. We test the model in a laboratory experiment and confirm its main predictions. Our results have important …

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