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Public goods and voting on formal sanction schemes: An experiment

Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert; Kamei, Kenju - 2010

interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …

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Self-Organization for collective action: An experimental study of voting on formal, informal, and no sanction regimes

Markussen, Thomas; Putterman, Louis; Tyran, Jean-Robert - 2011

). Being adopted by voting appears to enhance the efficiency of both informal sanctions and non-deterrent formal sanctions. …

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Governing collective action in the face of observational error

Markussen, Thomas; Putterman, Louis G.; Wang, Liangjun - 2017

We present results from a repeated public goods experiment where subjects choose by vote one of two sanctioning schemes: peer-to-peer (informal) or centralized (formal). We introduce, in some treatments, a moderate amount of noise (a 10 percent probability that a contribution is reported...

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Can endogenously chosen institutions mitigate the free-rider problem and reduce perverse punishment?

Ertan, Arhan; Page, Talbot; Putterman, Louis - 2005

Previous experiments on public goods dilemmas have found that the opportunity to punish leads to higher contributions …

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Pivotality and responsibility attribution in sequential voting

Bartling, Björn; Fischbacher, Urs; Schudy, Simeon - 2015

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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Eu transfers and euroscepticism: Can't buy me love?

Borin, Alessandro; Macchi, Elisa; Mancini, Michele - 2018

This paper investigates whether EU redistributive policies improved the public attitude toward European integration, both in terms of public opinion and in terms of political preferences. We build a new dataset combining data from the European Social Survey, different data sources for political...

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An analysis of the Swiss vote on the use of genetically modified crops

Schläpfer, Felix - 2007

cultivation of genetically modified (GM) plants within Switzerland. The present study examines how individual voting decisions … regular voter survey undertaken after national-level voting decisions in Switzerland. Among the socioeconomic characteristics …

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The Electoral Consequences of Nuclear Fallout: Evidence from Chernobyl

Mehic, Adrian - 2020

What are the political effects of a nuclear accident? Following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, environmentalist parties were elected to parliaments in several nations. This paper uses Chernobyl as a natural experiment creating variation in radioactive fallout exposure over Sweden. I match...

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Federalism and the optimal degree of centralization of public goods

Kolmar, Martin - 2001

In this paper we analyze the optimal degree of centralization for the supply of public goods. We identify the reliance on an exclusion mechanism as a central feature of the decentralized provision of public goods. An exclusion mechanism induces a contest between users of the public goods who...

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Who Supports Portable Assessment Caps? The Role of Lock-Ins, Tax Share, and Mobility

Cheung, Ron; Cunningham, Chris R. - 2010

We examine voter support in 2008 for Constitutional Amendment 1 in Florida, which modifies a Proposition 13–like property assessment growth cap by allowing homeowners to port their exempted value to a new home. Despite claims by amendment proponents that it would lower property taxes, we do...

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