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impact of the voting procedure, no information about the cooperation history is provided. In line with existing empirical …
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in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the …
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in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the …
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economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost … foregone. -- public goods ; competition ; tournament ; cooperation ; voting …
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Effective states provide public goods by taxing their citizens and imposing penalties for non-compliance. However, accountable government requires that enough citizens are civically engaged. We study the voluntary cooperative underpinnings of the accountable state by conducting a two-level...
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promoting social norms. We show here, using experiments with human subjects, that public implementation of punishment can … ; experiments ; behavioral economics …
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mean positive emotional responses. -- Priming ; contributions ; beliefs ; emotional responses ; public goods experiments …
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Does the cultural background influence the success with which genetically unrelated individuals cooperate in social dilemma situations? In this paper we provide an answer by analyzing the data of Herrmann et al. (Science 2008, pp. 1362-1367), who study cooperation and punishment in sixteen...
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This paper investigates the efficacy of a punishment mechanism in promoting cooperative behaviour in a public goods game when enforcement of punishment is uncertain. Experimental studies have found that a sanctioning system can induce individuals to adopt behaviour deemed as socially acceptable....
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