Divided Loyalists or Conditional Cooperators? Creating Consensus About Cooperation in Multiple Simultaneous Social Dilemmas

McCarter, Matthew W.; Samek, Anya; Sheremeta, Roman M.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2486693

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“…This nested structure is what differentiates the ML-PGG from other extensions of the standard PGG to multiple PGs (e.g. Cherry and Dickinson 2008, Falk et al 2013, McCarter et al 2014 2 and what allows the level problem to be captured by design.…”

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Leveling up? An inter-neighborhood experiment on parochialism and the efficiency of multi-level public goods provision

Gallier

Goeschl

Kesternich

et al. 2019

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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Many public goods can be provided at different spatial levels. Evidence from social identity theory and in-group favoritism raises the possibility that where higher-level provision is more efficient, subjects' narrow concern for local outcomes (parochialism) could harm efficiency. Building on the experimental paradigm of multi-level public good games and the 'neighborhood attachment' concept, we conduct an artefactual field experiment with 600 participants in a setting conducive to parochial behavior. In an inter-neighborhood intraregion design, subjects allocate an endowment between a personal account, a local, and a regional public good account. The between-subjects design varies across two dimensions: One informs subjects that the smaller local group consists of members from their own neighborhood ('neighbors'). The other varies the relative productivity at the two public goods provision levels. We find evidence for parochialism, but contrary to our hypothesis, parochialism does not interfere with efficiency: The average subject responds to a change in relative productivities at the local and regional level in the same way, whether aware of their neighbors' presence in the small group or not. The results even hold for subjects with abovemedian neighborhood attachment and subjects primed on neighborhood attachment.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Leveling up? An inter-neighborhood experiment on parochialism and the efficiency of multi-level public goods provision

Gallier

Goeschl

Kesternich

et al. 2019

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

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“…Finally, it is revealed that one type of dilemma results in other dilemmas and more severe negative externalities, e.g., underuse of local POS and shirking/disuse of government's enforcement on POS management can cause residents, private sectors, and governments to engage in opportunistic overconsumption behaviour (Wilson and Kelling 1982), which adheres to the Prisoner's dilemma theory that individuals are more likely to behave opportunistically. This local phenomenon vitally addresses McCarter et al (2014) questions of what-and-how the multiple and simultaneous dilemmas take place and their effects on both ecological dimensions.…”

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Effects of Diverse Property Rights on Rural Neighbourhood Public Open Space (POS) Governance: Evidence from Sabah, Malaysia

Ling

Leng

2019

Economies

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There are severe issues of public open space (POS) underinvestment and overexploitation. However, few studies have been conducted on the property rights structure and its impacts on rural commons governance, specifically concerning local neighbourhood residential POS quality and sustainability. The social-ecological system framework and the new institutional economics theory were employed to examine the local diverse property rights system and its effects on the emergence of POS dilemmas. Rural commons covering neighbourhood residential Country Lease (CL) and Native Title (NT) POS from the districts of Kota Kinabalu and Penampang, Sabah Malaysia were selected. A mixed-method phenomenological case study, involving multi-stakeholders’ perspectives across public-private-user sectors, was employed. This study revealed four main interconnected property rights issues, including attenuated rights, incomplete rights, maladaptive rights, and security-based de facto perceptive rights, under the complex state-private regime, which incentivise the opportunistic behaviour of individuals in externalising POS commons dilemmas. The findings further inferred that the local diverse property rights issues and POS dilemmas caused, and are associated with, other rights issues and dilemmas, forming a rights-dilemmas nexus. Not only do the institutional failures actuate POS dilemmas, but the former also engender other forms of property rights failures, while the latter cause other POS dilemmas. This paper suggests policy and management insights to public officials, in which the importance of the institutional-social-POS behavioural factor and the re-engineering of POS governance via adaptive property rights realignment are emphasised.

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“…The total contribution of individuals is higher when a single public good is later split into two identical public goods. In McCarter et al (2014), subjects also face multiple public goods, but in one treatment they play two public good games with the same group of players, whereas in the other treatment, each game is played with a different group. In the latter, subjects shift their contributions towards the more cooperative group (see also Falk et al, 2013).…”

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Does decentralization of decisions increase the stability of large groups?

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Using a laboratory experiment with nested local and global public goods, we analyze the stability of global groups when individuals have the option to separate, according to the degree of decentralization of decision-making. We show that increasing the number of decisions made at the local level within a smaller group reduces the likelihood that individuals vote in favor of a configuration that includes no global good for interacting only within their local group. Voting for such a configuration is more likely when global group members are less cooperative and local group members are more cooperative. Reinforcing local group identity has no impact on votes.

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Divided Loyalists or Conditional Cooperators? Creating Consensus About Cooperation in Multiple Simultaneous Social Dilemmas

Cited by 12 publications

References 51 publications

Leveling up? An inter-neighborhood experiment on parochialism and the efficiency of multi-level public goods provision

Leveling up? An inter-neighborhood experiment on parochialism and the efficiency of multi-level public goods provision

Effects of Diverse Property Rights on Rural Neighbourhood Public Open Space (POS) Governance: Evidence from Sabah, Malaysia

Does decentralization of decisions increase the stability of large groups?

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