Introducing a threshold in the sense of a minimal project size transforms a public-good game with an inefficient … thresholds are ineffective at best and often counterproductive. This holds over a range of threshold levels and refund rates. We … test whether thresholds perform better if they are endogenously chosen, i.e., whether a threshold is approved in a …

, political attitude, gender and intelligence have a small but sometimes significant influence on voting. …

help make such rules effective include the presence of informal sanctions by peers, and implementation through voting. I … after both implemented and randomly overridden voting. I find that informal sanctions strengthen the effect of formal ones …

using laboratory experiments. A purely rational choice perspective of a simple voting environment implies that information …

This paper uses experiments to explore electoral accountability in a legislative system that favors seniority. Voters …