This paper reports an experiment which compares behaviour in two punishment regimes: (i) a standard public goods game … with punishment in which subjects are given the opportunity to punish other group members (democratic punishment regime … punishment regime). We employ a within-subjects design where subjects experience both environments and control for order effects …

The burgeoning literature on the use of sanctions to support public goods provision has largely neglected the use of … formal or centralized sanctions. We let subjects playing a linear public goods game vote on the parameters of a formal … interest in those parameters, voting patterns suggest significant influence of cooperative orientation, political attitudes …

reached through milder punishment when third-party sanctions are endogenous. However, overall efficiency does not differ …This paper studies experimentally how the endogeneity of sanctioning institutions affects the severity of punishment in … social dilemmas. We allow individuals to vote on the introduction of third-party-administered sanctions, and compare …