The Impact of Elections on Cooperation: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Uganda.
The Impact of Elections on Cooperation: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment in Uganda.
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1540-5907.2012.00596.x
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发表时间：
2012-10-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Baldassarri D
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文献类型：
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作者：
Grossman G;Baldassarri D
社区往往依靠制裁来吸引公益捐助。过去的研究集中在外部机构或同行制裁如何诱导合作。在这篇文章中，我们将重点放在社区内部的中央权威所扮演的角色上。结合“实验室在现场”的实验与观察数据的1,541乌干达农民从50个社区，我们证明了内部集中的制裁当局对合作行为的积极影响。我们还表明，这种影响的大小取决于权力授予的政治过程：选举领导人的主题比通过抽签分配领导人的主题对公共产品的贡献更大。为了测试我们研究结果的生态有效性，我们将实验中农民的行为与他们在社区组织中的合作水平联系起来。我们发现，在受控环境中对权威的顺从预测了农民在自然环境中的合作行为，在自然环境中，他们面临着类似的社会困境。
Communities often rely on sanctioning to induce public goods contributions. Past studies focus on how external agencies or peer sanctioning induce cooperation. In this article, we focus instead on the role played by centralized authorities, internal to the community. Combining “lab-in-the-field” experiments with observational data on 1,541 Ugandan farmers from 50 communities, we demonstrate the positive effect of internal centralized sanctioning authorities on cooperative behavior. We also show that the size of this effect depends on the political process by which authority is granted: subjects electing leaders contribute more to public goods than subjects who were assigned leaders through a lottery. To test the ecological validity of our findings, we relate farmers’ behavior in the experiment to their level of cooperation in their community organization. We show that deference to authority in the controlled setting predicts cooperative behavior in the farmers’ natural environment, in which they face a similar social dilemma.
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DOI：
10.1146/annurev.polisci.12.060107.154037
发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
10.8
作者：
de Rooij, Eline A.;Green, Donald P.;Gerber, Alan S.
通讯作者：
Gerber, Alan S.
影响因子：
1.1
作者：
Eckel, Catherine C.;Fatas, Enrique;Wilson, Rick
通讯作者：
Wilson, Rick
影响因子：
2
作者：
Gelman, Andrew
通讯作者：
Gelman, Andrew
影响因子：
2.9
作者：
Cardenas, Juan Camilo;Carpenter, Jeffrey
通讯作者：
Carpenter, Jeffrey
影响因子：
2
作者：
Fischbacher, U;Gächter, S;Fehr, E
通讯作者：
Fehr, E