Social Interactions, Group Dynamics, and the Political Economy of Sovereign Transgression: A Laboratory Investigation

主权侵犯--例如，国家没收公民的财富--会对经济表现产生重大的负面影响。该项目将研究社会互动和群体动态如何在受控的实验室环境中影响主权侵犯和公民抵抗的发生率。实质性和方法上的创新可以增加澳大利亚的知识基础。该项目将促进澳大利亚研究人员和国际专家之间的合作。它还将使澳大利亚本科生接触实验经济学，并为研究生提供使用实验室方法研究经济行为的实践培训。

Sovereign transgression-for example, confiscation of citizens' wealth by the state--can have a significant negative effect on economic performance. This project will study the under-explored issues of how social interactions and group dynamics can affect the incidence of sovereign transgression and citizen resistance in a controlled laboratory environment. The substantive and methodological innovations can increase the Australian knowledge base. The project will facilitate collaboration between Australian researchers and international experts. It will also expose Australian undergraduate students to experimental economics, and provide graduate students with hands-on training in using the laboratory method to study economic behaviour.