2020 Graduate Student Publications

Voluntary leadership and the emergence of institutions for self-governance

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 22:30:26 +0000

Voluntary leadership and the emergence of institutions for self-governance Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 10/16/2020 - 16:30

By: Krister Andersson, Kimberlee Chang, Adriana Molina-Garzon

Publication Date: October 2020

Abstract:

Strong local institutions are important for the successful governance of common-pool resources (CPRs), but why do such institutions emerge in the first place and why do they sometimes not emerge at all? We argue that voluntary local leaders play an important role in the initiation of self-governance institutions because such leaders can directly affect local users’ perceived costs and benefits associated with self-rule. Drawing on recent work on leadership in organizational behavior, we propose that voluntary leaders can facilitate a cooperative process of local rule creation by exhibiting unselfish behavior and leading by example. We posit that such forms of leadership are particularly important when resource users are weakly motivated to act collectively, such as when confronted with “creeping” environmental problems. We test these ideas by using observations from a laboratory-in-the-field experiment with 128 users of forest commons in Bolivia and Uganda. We find that participants’ agreement to create new rules was significantly stronger in group rounds where voluntary, unselfish leaders were present. We show that unselfish leadership actions make the biggest difference for rule creation under high levels of uncertainty, such as when the resource is in subtle decline and intragroup communication sparse.

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War, Inequality, and Taxation

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:24:29 +0000

War, Inequality, and Taxation Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/07/2020 - 10:24

Dalton C. Dorr and Adrian J. Shin. "War, Inequality, and Taxation." Forthcoming at Economics and Politics

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Linking Gender, Language, and Partisanship: Developing a Database of Masculine and Feminine Words

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:22:55 +0000

Linking Gender, Language, and Partisanship: Developing a Database of Masculine and Feminine Words Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 10/07/2020 - 10:22

Damon C. Roberts and Stephen M. Utych. 2020. “Linking Gender, Language, and Partisanship: Developing a Database of Masculine and Feminine Words.” Political Research Quarterly, 73(1): 40–50. DOI: 10.1177/1065912919874883.

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Rejecting representation? Party systems and popular support for referendums in Europe

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 22:57:46 +0000

Rejecting representation? Party systems and popular support for referendums in Europe Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/06/2020 - 16:57

Bessen, Brett R. "Rejecting representation? Party systems and popular support for referendums in Europe." Electoral Studies 68 (2020): 102219

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Gaming Alone: Videogaming and Sociopolitical Attitudes

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 22:19:12 +0000

Gaming Alone: Videogaming and Sociopolitical Attitudes Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 10/06/2020 - 16:19

Pavel Bacovsky. "Gaming Alone: Videogaming and Sociopolitical Attitudes." 2020. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820910418.

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