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-riding. However, people also obey law backed by mild sanctions if it is accepted in a referendum. We show that voting for mild law …
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impact of the voting procedure, no information about the cooperation history is provided. In line with existing empirical …
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in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the …
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in prisoners' dilemmas, public goods games, and common pool resource games. Participants in these experiments have the …
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economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma … outcome depends strongly on specific voting rules of institutional choice. If the majority decides, competition is almost … foregone. -- public goods ; competition ; tournament ; cooperation ; voting …
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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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exogenously or arises endogenously through voting. Our results show that the presence of an institution in one game generally …
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exogenously or arises endogenously through voting. Our results show that the presence of an institution in one game generally …
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This paper experimentally examines the effect of electoral delegation on providing global public goods shared by several groups. Each group elects a delegate who can freely decide on each group member's contribution (including the contribution of herself) to the global public good. Our results...
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