Tra i Leoni: Revealing the preferences behind a superstition

We examine a superstition for which adherence is nearly universal among its target population. Using a combination of field interventions that involve unsuspecting participants and a lab-style value elicitation, we investigate the nature and strength of peoples’ underlying preferences. While a substantial minority of people are willing to incur a relatively high individual cost in order to adhere to the superstition, for many, adherence is contingent on the behavior of others. Our findings are consistent with the idea that it is the conforming nature of the majority that sustains the false beliefs of the minority.     

有组织的无序:合作困境的复杂生成机理

合作困境具有复杂的生成机理,它们在受到各种有序、规则的结构性因素影响的同时,还受到微观行动领域中行动者无序的、充满策略性的、交互行动结构的影响,即"有组织的无序"。缓解政府机构间合作困境的策略,不仅应考虑制度供给、权责划分和个体的理性选择等单边因素,更应考虑多方立体的互动结构。这种多方立体的互动结构,至少取决于四个重要环节:机构间的资源依赖结构、对合作行为的合法性判断、协商性的交换过程以及合作规则的形成过程。