What is it about?
This paper explores a possibility of a spill-over effect on the voters’ behavior triggered by democratic decision-making. Using an experiment, the researcher found that a successful democratic imposition of the policy in a dilemma may increase the voters' level of cooperation even when the policy is undemocratically imposed in another group.
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Why is it important?
The novelty of the article is that the researcher provides quantitative evidence by controlling for econometric problems (e.g., selection problems). The finding is important because it means that when a policy is democratically implemented reflecting people’s votes, the extra effects of a democratically implemented policy may not be limited to the relevant problem, but may also emerge in another problem through resilient behavioral responses of those assenting to the policy.
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Investigating the mechanisms theoretically how such spill-over effects happen would be an important area for further research.
Prof. Kenju Kamei
Keio University
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This page is a summary of: Democracy and resilient pro-social behavioral change: an experimental study, Social Choice and Welfare, May 2016, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/s00355-016-0967-y.
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