Introduction for Experimental economics and culture / Anna Gunnthorsdottir and Douglas A. Norton -- Why use qualitative methods to study culture in economic life? / Virgil Henry Storr and Arielle John -- A note on qualitative methods in experimental economics / Douglas A. Norton -- Culture as a...

When politicians are provided with insufficient incentives by the democratic election mechanism, we show that social welfare can be improved by threshold contracts. A threshold incentive contract stipulates a performance level which a politican must reach in order to have the right to stand for...