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- Title
Democracy and resilient pro-social behavioral change: an experimental study.
- Authors
Kamei, Kenju
- 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.
- Subjects
DEMOCRACY; BEHAVIOR modification; EMPIRICAL research; COOPERATION; DECISION making; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Social Choice & Welfare, 2016, Vol 47, Issue 2, p359
- ISSN
0176-1714
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00355-016-0967-y