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exchange for their votes. That practice undermines the functioning of democracy but is pervasive in many parts of the world …
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imposed vs. democratically chosen in a vote. We find a “dividend of democracy” in the sense that the disincentive effect is …
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when such a "dividend of democracy" obtains, we review experimental studies in which material incentives remain stacked … studies find positive dividends of democracy across a broad range of cooperation settings, we also report on studies that find … no dividend. We conclude that the existence of a dividend of democracy cannot be considered a stylized fact. We discuss …
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The burgeoning literature on the use of sanctions to support public goods provision has largely neglected the use of formal or centralized sanctions. We let subjects playing a linear public goods game vote on the parameters of a formal sanction scheme capable both of resolving and of...
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Introducing a threshold in the sense of a minimal project size transforms a public goods game with an inefficient equilibrium into a coordination game with a set of Pareto-superior equilibria. Thresholds may therefore improve efficiency in the voluntary provision of public goods. In our one-shot...
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Moral considerations may matter much in voting because the costs of expressing support for a morally worthy cause may be low in a referendum. These costs depend on whether a voter expects to affect the outcome of the referendum. To test the low-cost theory of expressive voting, we experimentally...
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