economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … situation. Experimental results show that the competitive scheme fosters cooperation. Competition is popular, but the electoral … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost …

bonus is substantial. In this case, however, the data suggests that tournament competition crowds out voluntary cooperation …

This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and … religious festivals other than the normal daily prayers. The overall results show no differences in cooperation or altruistic … differences in beliefs about others contributions. By and large, this indicates the importance of conditional cooperation. …

We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i … that all-can-win competition produces a universal increase in cooperation and benefits a majority of individuals if ….e. when everyone can be a winner. This type of rank-order competition has the advantage that it can eliminate the negative …