Norm Enforcement In Social Dilemmas: An Experiment With Police Commissioners
- ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- David L. Dickinson Ph.D., Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- Appalachian State University (ASU )
- Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/
Abstract: Do individuals trained in law enforcement punish or reward differently from typical student-subjects? We analyze norm enforcement behavior of newly appointed police commissioners in both a game with positive externalities (based on a Voluntary Contribution Mechanism) and a similar game with negative externalities. Depending on the treatment, a reward or sanction institution is either exogenously or endogenously implemented. Police commissioners cooperate significantly more in both games and bear a higher burden of the sanction costs compared to non-police subjects. When the norm enforcement institution is endogenous, subjects favor rewards over sanctions, but police subjects are more likely to vote for sanctions. Police subjects also reward and sanction more than the others when the institution results from a majority vote. Our experiment suggests that lab evidence on social dilemma games with positive or negative externalities and enforcement institutions is rather robust.
Norm Enforcement In Social Dilemmas: An Experiment With Police Commissioners
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- Publication
- Dickinson, D. L., et al. (2015). "Norm enforcement in social dilemmas: An experiment with police commissioners." Journal of Public Economics 126: 74-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2015.03.012. Publisher version of record available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047272715000559
- Language: English
- Date: 2015
- Keywords
- Norm enforcement, Sanctions, Rewards,
Voluntary contribution mechanism, Police,
Experiment