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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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We elicit human conditional punishment types by conducting experiments. We find that their punishment decisions to an … individual are on average significantly positively proportional to other members' punishment decisions to that individual …
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punishment was frequently observed, in line with previous studies. Despite the prevalence of punishment, having one third party … punisher in a group did not make one's defection materially unbeneficial because of the weak punishment intensity observed … party punishment was sufficiently strong to transform the dilemma's incentive structure into a coordination game, through …
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individuals jointly decides how strong a third-party punishment to impose. It also shows that this punishment behavior is robust …
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about whether opportunities to engage in higher-order punishment (punishing punishment or failure to punish) help or … of higher-order punishment opportunities increases cooperation and efficiency when subjects have full information on the … pattern of punishing and its history, when any subject can punish any other, and when the numbers of punishment and of …
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