We investigate the effects of power on cooperation in repeated social dilemma settings. Groups of five players play … either multi-player trust games or VCM-games on a fixed network. Power stems from having the authority to allocate funds … participation in the network. Our results show that power matters but that its effects hinge strongly on the type involved …

We conduct a laboratory experiment to study the incentives of a privileged group to share political power with another … power voluntarily only to a small extent, but is more inclined to do so under the threat of punishment, despite the fact … suggests that power sharing arises from the (suboptimal) willingness of the minority to punish selfish behavior …

We run an experiment in order to evaluate the relationship between power, or the search for power, and the degree of … members, while in the power setting (treatment B) there was a ranking of the earnings in the group, and the subject who earned … the higher sum was given the power to decide the distribution scheme of the group surplus. It is argued that this latter …