Democracy and Resilient Pro-Social Behavioral Change: An Experimental Study

Kamei, K.

doi:10.1007/s00355-016-0967-y

Democracy and Resilient Pro-Social Behavioral Change: An Experimental Study

Kamei, K.

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K. Kamei

Abstract

Both experimental and empirical studies have shown that democratically imposing a policy that encourages cooperation may increase its effectiveness by enhancing the voters’ cooperation behavior. But, do those involved in the democratic decision-making process change their behavior when faced with an exogenously implemented rule? This paper experimentally shows that the voters that are involved in a successful democratic selection of a policy behave more pro-socially as consistent with recent studies. My experiment moreover shows that such a successful democratic imposition of the policy may increase the voters’ level of cooperation even when the policy is undemocratically imposed.

Citation

Kamei, K. (2016). Democracy and Resilient Pro-Social Behavioral Change: An Experimental Study. Social Choice and Welfare, 47(2), 359-378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-016-0967-y

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	May 3, 2016
Online Publication Date	May 26, 2016
Publication Date	Aug 1, 2016
Deposit Date	May 11, 2016
Publicly Available Date	May 13, 2016
Journal	Social Choice and Welfare
Print ISSN	0176-1714
Electronic ISSN	1432-217X
Publisher	Springer
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	47
Issue	2
Pages	359-378
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-016-0967-y
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1412684
Related Public URLs	http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1756225

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