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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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interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …
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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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We show theoretical and experimental results that demonstrate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision making and deliberation. We present a model in which committee members have career concerns and unanimity is needed to change the status quo. We study three scenarios -...
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more often than simple majority. In a series of laboratory experiments, we investigate how various rules affect the outcome …
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affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …
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A conclave is a voting mechanism in which a committee selects an alternative by voting until a sufficient supermajority … conclave leads to efficiency gains relative to simple majority voting. We also compare welfare properties of a static versus a …
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We experimentally study the disincentive effect of taxing work and redistributing tax revenues when redistribution is imposed vs. democratically chosen in a vote. We find a “dividend of democracy” in the sense that the disincentive effect is substantially smaller when redistribution is...
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