Dominik Duell

University of Innsbruck | UIBK · Department of Political Sciences

Addressing the question of how to tackle gender inequalities, we test whether women who perceive women’s representation in politics as achievement are empowered. We embed an experiment in an online survey conducted on a sample of 4545 U.S. women, varying whether the number of women in Congress is presented as achievement or reason for concern. We f...

We experimentally explore the role of institutions imposing collective sanctions in sustaining cooperation. In our experiment, players only observe noisy signals about individual contributions in finitely repeated public goods game with imperfect monitoring, while total output is perfectly observed as it is often the case in collective action probl...

Citizens often support politicians who vote against their parties in parliament. They view rebels as offering better representation, appreciate expressive acts, take rebellion as a signal of standing up for constituents, or see rebels as defending their moral convictions. Each explanation has different implications for representation, but they have...

Political philosophy asks questions of great importance to our lives, both as individuals and members of political communities: What is justice? What does the state owe to its citizens? Under which conditions are different forms of government likely to be stable? The relevance of empirical research to such questions, however, has been largely under...

Members of Parliament (MPs) who vote against their party can improve their public standing. But how do MPs explain and frame their rebellious behavior to maximize their appeal? And what can party leaders do to mitigate the damage done by intraparty dissent? Using a vignette survey experiment fielded in four European democracies, we study how statem...

Causal mechanisms' portability and their predictions in sometimes counterfactual settings point to the value of studies with details of interactions and/or convenience samples that depart from those in the proximate contexts of the phenomena of interest. The proper role of such contexts must be construed within an explanatory framework attentive to...

Voters often favor candidates who benefit them individually but may coordinate their support with their social group on other candidates in exchange for policies targeting their group. In a laboratory experiment, I induce group identities to investigate the behavior of voters facing such trade-offs. I find that groups with low within heterogeneity...

While scholars and pundits alike have expressed concern regarding the increasingly “tribal” nature of political identities, there has been little analysis of how this social polarization impacts political selection. In this paper, we incorporate social identity into a principal-agent model of political representation and characterize the impact of...

Replication Material for "Do citizens make inferences from political candidate characteristics when aiming for substantive representation?". See also https://github.com/mikajoh/descr

We elicit citizens' preferences over hypothetical candidates by applying conjoint survey experiments within a probability-based online panel of the Norwegian electorate. Our experimental treatments differ in whether citizens receive information about candidates' social characteristics only, candidates' issue positions only, or both. From this, we i...

We measure the appeal of descriptive representation-representation based on social group markers-and investigate its relation to substantive representation. Applying con-joint survey experiments within the Norwegian Citizen Panel, we test whether voters perceive and use descriptive representation as a proxy for substantive representation. We find t...

While scholars and pundits alike have expressed concern regarding increasing social polarization based on partisan identity, there has been little analysis of how social polarization impacts voting. In this paper, we incorporate social identity into a principal-agent model of political representation and characterize the influence of social polariz...

Understanding the effects of electoral systems is of great importance to both scholars and practitioners, and experimental research can be a valuable tool in pursuit of this goal. However, scholars need to think carefully about how to utilize experimental research, especially because the variation in electoral systems in which we are most intereste...

In a laboratory experiment, we explore the effects of group identities on the principal-agent relationship between voters and representatives. In an adverse selection framework with observable effort, voters can choose to condition their reelection choices on representatives' effort alone, beliefs about representatives' competence, or both of those...

In a laboratory experiment, we explore the effects of group identities on the principal-agent relationship between voters and representatives. In an adverse selection framework with observable effort, voters can choose to condition their re-election choices on representatives' effort alone, beliefs about representatives' competence, or both of thos...

Political parties not only aggregate the policy preferences of their supporters, but also have the ability to shape those preferences. Experimental evidence demonstrates that, when parties stake out positions on policy issues, partisans become more likely to adopt these positions, whether out of blind loyalty or because they infer that party endors...

When parties endorse policy positions and priorities, they are thought to send a signal about which policy best serves the interests, or is most consistent with the values, of their followers. Survey research has long confirmed a strong link between partisanship and policy attitudes, but left the causal direction in doubt. More recently, experiment...

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In a laboratory experiment based on a strategic career-concerns setting, we analyze how sharing a membership in a social group affects principals' assessments of the causes of agent performance. The treatments vary whether (artificially induced) group identification is specifically primed as well as the in-group vs. out-group matching of the princi...

In many cases, politicians are the most important sources of voters' knowledge about politics and policies, and one of the well-observed features of current times is that this information is often couched in the rhetoric of social identities. Politicians call upon "Main Street" to stand up against "Wall Street" or they speak to "real America" and "...