Essays on Political Economy and Cultural Evolution

And if parties support different policies, then citizens whose preferred party does not support their preferred policy may switch one of their preferences.. On the one hand,

A key contribution of this paper is to use various manipulations of sociality, to compare their effects on human choice behavior, and select an effective one that boosts sociality

Further, the cost function used made marginal cost dependent on the capacity limit and would not easily lend itself to the discussion of what happens when just the number of

By comparing the attitude toward corruption of individuals across countries with different majority religion, we are able to check whether the relation

In a probabilistic voting framework we have shown that the rise in the diversity of goods over the same period may have increased the marginal utility of income for

A one-round public goods game is played within each group, and all individuals reproduce according to their payoff. As a consequence, the group size distribution evolves

Given that “political outcomes are closer to citizens’ preferences in direct democracy compared to representative democracy” (Feld and Kirchgässner 2000), the Swiss direct

In particular, we show that in the case of positive redistribution the internationalization process lowers the intensity of redistribution thus increasing labour demand and