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The paper develops a sociological approach for understanding the role of expectations in collective action. It argues that an approach based on expectations is better suited to explain collective action in episodes of social change than existing sociological theories. Two case studies - one on...
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commons, Lukas Peter argues that this form of social organization can provide answers to the shortcomings of centralized … an ecological understanding of the commons and human freedom, more generally, thereby reinterpreting classical thinkers …
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Conditions for the emergence of cooperation in a spatial common-pool resource game are studied. This combines in a … three strategies: defection, cooperation, and enforcement. Individual payoffs are affected by both global factors, namely …
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We study the conditions for the emergence of cooperation in a spatial common-pool resource game. We consider three …
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find a large and positive effect of endogenous institutional choice on the level of cooperation in comparison to … exogenously implemented institutions. This suggests that participation rights enhance cooperation in groups. With endogenous … levels of cooperation. Our results are evaluated against the predictions of social preference models. …
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We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation … may foster cooperation through a mechanism of assortative selection of interaction partners based on false consensus bias … the effectiveness of these mechanisms in a one-shot public goods experiment. Voluntary participation has a positive effect …
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We study the effects of voluntary participation on cooperation in collective action problems. Voluntary participation … may foster cooperation through an entry mechanism, which leads to assortative selection of interaction partners, or an … the effectiveness of these mechanisms in a one-shot public goods experiment. Voluntary participation has a positive effect …
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We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and … harm those who defect, encouraging a norm of cooperation towards the group. Adding competition between groups causes even … stronger in-group cooperation, but also a qualitative change in punishment: punishment becomes anti-social, harming cooperative …
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This paper introduces a two-sided methodological framework for studies on cooperation based on a new game design … decision problem. Decision makers can choose an individual level of cooperation from a given range of possible actions. Within … applying our framework. Palestinians show a substantially higher cooperation level in the positive externality treatment. In …
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We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i … are absent if groups perform at the same level and it therefore does not eliminate low-cooperation equilibria. We find … that all-can-win competition produces a universal increase in cooperation and benefits a majority of individuals if …
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