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 …

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 also that the … electoral outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is …

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 …

contribution mechanisms to foster human cooperation in heterogeneous populations. Our model predicts that a sequential mechanism …

decisions about the level of the public good. We derive a number of interesting results: i) Political competition is a necessary … competition, these institutions implement the Lindahl allocation in the economy as a sub-game perfect Nash equilibrium of the …

impact of the voting procedure, no information about the cooperation history is provided. In line with existing empirical …We experimentally investigate whether the procedural history of a sanctioning institution affects cooperation in a … evidence, we observe that in the starting generation cooperation is higher (lower) with a democratically chosen (rejected …