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Why Do People Pay for Useless Advice? Implications of Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies in False-Expert Setting

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Riyanto, Yohanes E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We investigated experimentally whether people can be induced to believe in a non-existent expert, and subsequently pay for what can only be described as transparently useless advice about future chance events. Consistent with the theoretical predictions made by Rabin (2002) and Rabin and Vayanos...

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Explicating social action: arguing or bargaining

Eriksen, Erik Oddvar - RECON - 2009

Jon Elster has a clear view of the role of norms and impartiality in collective decision making processes, but does not ascribe to them the power to explain action. Hence, the paradox: If it is only public reasons that can justify outcomes, how can private desires be the causes of the same...

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Coming to terms with the ‘legitimacy crisis’ of European foreign politics: The European Parliament pushing the frontiers of consultation

Wisniewski, Elisabeth - RECON - 2011

. However, the emerging Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) has been criticized for its lack of democratic legitimacy … European Union (EU) to enhance legitimacy or is this process a result of inter-institutional dynamics? Are these mechanisms …

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The dynamics of legitimation - Why the study of political legitimacy needs more realism

Gaus, Daniel - RECON - 2011

The paper suggests a practice turn in the analysis of political legitimacy. Current social science research on … political legitimacy suffers twofold. First, it shows an undue (silent) impact of an ethics-first perspective. Second, empirical … approaches to political legitimacy mostly focus on societal constellations of citizens’ beliefs. The dynamic character of …

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Contesting EU Legitimacy: The Prominence, Content and Justification of Euroscepticism During 2009 EP Election Campaigns

Wilde, Pieter de; Trenz, Hans-Jörg; Michailidou, Asimina - RECON - 2010

This paper analyses the prominence, content and justifications of Euroscepticism as a form of EU legitimacy … contestation, mediation and formation of public opinion in the public sphere. Our survey delivers original data on EU legitimacy …. Thirdly, we find that a primary concern in EU legitimacy contestation is democracy, especially for those evaluating EU …

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Data Mining and ‘Renegade’ Aircrafts: The States as Agents of a Global Militant Security Governance Network — The German Example

Nickel, Rainer - RECON - 2010

Security governance has changed the way societies organise and control the execution of powers. This contribution will focus on the ’German’ approach, and, inevitably these days, also on the EU approach towards new threats to security, especially with regard to terrorism. The main argument...

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Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999

Earle, John S.; Spicer, Andrew; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational practices? We explore this question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and non-payment of wages, in Russia during the 1990s. Existing research on wage arrears most...

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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...

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Adversary or ‘depoliticized’ institution? Democratizing the Constitutional Convention

Hüller, Thorsten - RECON - 2007

legitimacy-trap. An elected convention would probably be more democratic, because such an institution would be more public as …

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European Identity Formation in the Public Sphere and in Foreign Policy

Risse, Thomas; Grabowsky, Jana Katharina - RECON - 2008

While in political debates identity is often considered as given, scholars of social sciences concentrate on the formation of new and particularly transnational identities. Insights from nationalism reveal mechanisms of identity formation but European integration has taken its own way. We...

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