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Expressive voting vs. self-serving ignorance
Momsen, Katharina; Ohndorf, Markus - 2020
We experimentally examine the effect of self-serving information avoidance on democratic and individual decisions in the context of climate change mitigation. Subjects need to choose between two allocations which differ in own payoffs and contributions to carbon offsets. In a between-subjects...
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Correlation Neglect in Voting Decisions : An Experiment
Moser, Johannes - 2019
information against her preferences. In an online experiment, the subjects have to vote on either a safe or a risky payment of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870763
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Public Voting and Prosocial Behavior
Morton, Rebecca - 2018
One argument against secret ballots is that such procedures lead to more selfish voting behavior and that public voting can increase prosocial voting and the likelihood of prosocial outcomes when voters are not subject to intimidation and coercion from outside interests. We investigate this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920727
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Retrospection, Fairness, and Economic Shocks : How Do Voters Judge Policy Responses to Natural Disasters?
Bechtel, Michael M. - 2020
Which factors explain voters' evaluations of policy responses to economic shocks? We explore this question in the context of mass preferences over the distribution of disaster relief and evaluate three theoretical arguments related to fairness norms that highlight affectedness, need, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854456
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Machiavellian Fair Play : Electoral Incentives to Implement Programmatic Transfers
Tomasi, Arduino - 2020
If a welfare transfers policy is programmatic (it is non-partisan, transparent and persisting), is it irrelevant for politicians' electoral fortunes? I show that the answer is no with a political agency model where politicians' competence is uncertain to all. In my set-up, an incumbent...
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Affective Polarization and Election Expectations
Doiron, Maxim; Thomsson, Kaj; Tsakas, Elias; … - 2022
The rise in polarization in American politics over recent decades has attracted plenty of interest both in academia and in the broader public discussion. However, the connection between affective polarization and individuals’ election expectations is virtually unexplored and poorly understood....
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Motives of pro-social behavior in individual versus collective decisions : a comparative experimental study
Bischoff, Ivo; Krauskopf, Thomas - 2013 - This version: March 18, 2013
We investigate the motives of pro-social behavior in collective decisions in an economic experiment. It compares … endowment and have to decide how much of it to donate to charity. The experiment is combined with two long questionnaires that … the control variables are found significant. Comparing subjects' affective state before and after the experiment, we find …
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Endogenous Claims and Collective Production : An Experimental Study on the Timing of Profit-Sharing Negotiations and Production
Baranski, Andrzej - 2018
We explore the efficiency and distributive implications (theoretically and experimentally) of a multilateral bargaining model with endogenous production of the surplus under two different timings: ex ante and ex post bargaining. Both timings are commonly observed in business partnerships and...
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Motivated political reasoning: the formation of belief-value constellations
Barron, Kai; Becker, Anna; Huck, Steffen - 2021
process of motivated political reasoning in a preregistered online experiment with a nationally representative sample of 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793076
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A rationale for unanimity in committees
Breitmoser, Yves; Valasek, Justin - 2017
laboratory experiment. As predicted, if unanimity is required, subjects are more truthful, respond more to others' messages, and …
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