One of the challenges of participatory development and reconstruction programs is how and where to engage with power … holders. This paper analyses the dynamics of power relations within a community-driven reconstruction program in the … Democratic Republic of Congo. It shows that, in some circumstances, elite control can be a way of ensuring the provision of pubic …

health-promoting public goods improves with the political influence of the landless elite. We also provide evidence for two …

of social life: hierarchy and power asymmetry. While recent accounts posit that hierarchies can reduce within …-group conflict, individuals who possess high rank or power tend to show less cooperation. How, then, is cooperation achieved within … groups that contain power asymmetries? To address this question, the present research examines how relative power affects …

We investigate power abuse of a single punisher in a public-goods-game subject to variations in punishment power and … contribution transparency. We find a high amount of abuse across all conditions. More power led to more abuse over time, while … transparency could only curb abuse in the high power conditions. These findings highlight the dangers of power centralization, but …