Obedience to Rules with Mild Sanctions: The Roles of Peer Punishment and Voting
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Keywords
experiment; voluntary contribution; public goods; formal sanctions; informal sanctions; voting; democracy effect;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C72 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Noncooperative Games
- C91 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
- C92 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Laboratory, Group Behavior
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBE-2014-05-04 (Cognitive and Behavioural Economics)
- NEP-CDM-2014-05-04 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EXP-2014-05-04 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-GTH-2014-05-04 (Game Theory)
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