The Historical Varieties of Democracy Dataset (Historical V-Dem) is a new dataset containing about 260 indicators, both … 1920 for many cases. The majority of the indicators are also included in the Varieties of Democracy dataset, which covers … the period from 1900 to the present – and together these two datasets cover the bulk of “modern history”. Historical V …

This chapter examines the scope for mutually beneficial intergenerational cooperation, and looks at various attempts to … theoretically explain the emergence of norms and institutions that facilitate this cooperation. The contributions reviewed come from …

Until recently, theorists considering the evolution of human cooperation have paid little attention to institutional … maximize compliance? We investigate this question by modeling the co-evolution of law and cooperation in a public goods game …' updating of their contribution strategy and observe the effect on Citizen cooperation. We find that when States have unlimited …

Throughout human history, informal sanctions by peers were ubiquitous and played a key role in the enforcement of … quickly if we introduce two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with … of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect …

Throughout human history, informal sanctions played a key role in the enforcement of social norms and the provision of … quickly if we introduce two relevant features of social life into the experiment: (i) subjects can migrate across groups with … of universal cooperation because the more prosocial subjects populate the two efficient institutions first, elect …