An experimental investigation of the responsible usage of power

(在民主政体中)有权势的职位主要来自选举或层级任命或资源的随机分配。该研究项目调查，如果责任取决于权力的任命，并得到民主机构(DES)选举和宣誓就职或具有提名/降级的等级制度的支持，人们将如何应对责任。我们的方法是对公共产品供给(团队生产)的实验分析。对公共产品的自愿捐助与集团中的一个成员(分配者)被赋予对集团所有成员的资源的权力的情况进行了比较。这种权力转移通常与(通常是心照不宣的)集团福利责任的转移有关。处理办法：例如(1)不同的责任转移和不同的制裁机制。(2)集团成员作为分配者的作用具有同等和不同的效率。

Powerful positions (in democracies) result mainly from elections or from appointments in hierarchies or from random distributions of resources. The research project investigates how people cope with responsibility if responsibility rests on the apointment of power and is supported by the democratic institutions (des)election and oath of office or hierarchie with nomination/ degradation. Our method is the analysis of experiments on the supply of public goods (team production). Voluntary contributions to public goods are compared with situation in which one member of the group (the allocator) is provided with power over the resources of all group members. This transfer of power is usually connected with the (usually tacit) transfer of responsibility of the welfare of the group. Treatments: e.g. (i) different transfer of responsibility with different sanctioning mechanisms. (ii) Equal and different efficiencies of the group members in their role as allocator.