Until recently, theorists considering the evolution of human cooperation have paid little attention to institutional … punishment, a defining feature of large-scale human societies. Compared to individually-administered punishment, institutional … punishment offers a unique potential advantage: the ability to control how quickly legal rules of punishment evolve relative to …

mechanisms to the dilemma in recent decades. Although punishment is thought to be a key mechanism, evolutionary game theory has … revealed that the simplest form of punishment called peer punishment is useless to solve the dilemma, since peer punishment … itself is costly. In the literature, more complex types of punishment, such as pool punishment or institutional punishment …

cooperation and sanctioning', 2007, KritV - Kritische Vierteljahresschrift fur Gesetzgebung und Rechtswissenschaft, 90, 1-2, 140 … them concerns the question of “who punishes”. In the first approach, punishment is executed by the group members themselves … individually, i.e., punishment is decentral in nature. The second approach is based on the idea that individuals may be willing to …

of punishment. This paper presents the first controlled experiment to study a third important factor that has been mainly … will be punished is dissolved and the timing at which the punishment is actually imposed, as well as the combination …: either no delay (immediate resolution and immediate punishment) or maximum delay (both resolution and punishment as much as …

-nudges affect punishment behavior, and how enforcement links to norm perceptions. Using a representative sample of U.S. participants … study that confirm the robustness of our findings in the context of whistleblowing. To explain the punishment patterns of the … norms are vague. Importantly, we find that punishment patterns in the first experiment closely follow these norm perceptions …

cooperation and strategies, such as punishment and gossip, to promote cooperation in social dilemmas. In two studies involving … cooperation or the use of punishment and gossip to promote cooperation. We discuss the implications of these findings for …Previous research on cooperation has primarily focused on egalitarian interactions, overlooking a fundamental feature …

the accountable state by conducting a two-level public goods experiment in which civic engagement can build a sanction … taxation. In addition, we find that local social interaction among subgroups of participants also boosts cooperation. …