@article{3fec0fc90f7b454081db4861ce8545b4,
title = "Pork versus public goods: An experimental study of public good provision within a legislative bargaining framework",
abstract = "We experimentally investigate a legislative bargaining model with both public and particularistic goods. Consistent with the qualitative implications of the model: there is near exclusive public good provision in the pure public good region, in the pure private good region minimum winning coalitions sharing private goods predominate, and in the {"}mixed{"} region proposers generally take some particularistic goods for themselves, allocating the remainder to public goods. As in past experiments, proposer power is not nearly as strong as predicted, resulting in public good provision decreasing in the mixed region as its relative value increases, which is inconsistent with the theory.",
keywords = "Efficiency, Legislative bargaining, Public goods",
author = "Fr{\'e}chette, {Guillaume R.} and Kagel, {John H.} and Massimo Morelli",
note = "Funding Information: This research was partially supported by: National Science Foundation Grants No. 0213312, 0519205, 0519045, 0721111, and 0924780; the Mershon Center at The Ohio State University, and the Center for Experimental Social Science and the C.V. Starr Center at New York University. We thank the editor and referees, Alan Wiseman, Johanna Goertz, Pedro Dal B{\'o}, participants at the S{\'e}minaire Matuszewski at Universit{\'e} Laval and at the Citibank Workshop in Economic Theory at Brown University, Society for Economic Design 5th Conference on Economic Design, Social Dilemmas Conference, Experimental and Behavioral Conference, Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting, CIRANO conference on Individual Decisions and Political Process for useful comments and Kirill Chernomaz for developing the software employed in conducting the experiment along with helping to run the experimental sessions. The software was developed using zTree (Fischbacher ). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the other funding agencies.",
year = "2012",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1007/s00199-011-0611-0",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "49",
pages = "779--800",
journal = "Economic Theory",
issn = "0938-2259",
publisher = "Springer New York",
number = "3",
}