TY  - GEN
A1  - Kuhlmann, Sabine
A1  - Wayenberg, Ellen
T1  - Institutional impact assessment in multi-level systems
BT  - conceptualizing decentralization effects from a comparative perspective
T2  - International review of administrative sciences
N2  - Comparative literature on institutional reforms in multi-level systems proceeds from a global trend towards the decentralization of state functions. However, there is only scarce knowledge about the impact that decentralization has had, in particular, upon the sub-central governments involved. How does it affect regional and local governments? Do these reforms also have unintended outcomes on the sub-central level and how can this be explained? This article aims to develop a conceptual framework to assess the impacts of decentralization on the sub-central level from a comparative and policyoriented perspective. This framework is intended to outline the major patterns and models of decentralization and the theoretical assumptions regarding de-/re-centralization impacts, as well as pertinent cross-country approaches meant to evaluate and compare institutional reforms. It will also serve as an analytical guideline and a structural basis for all the country-related articles in this Special Issue.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 91 
KW  - administrative reform
KW  - comparison
KW  - coordination
KW  - effectiveness
KW  - efficiency
KW  - impact assessment
KW  - institutional reform,
KW  - local government
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-405314
VL  - 82
IS  - 2
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Kurz, Verena
A1  - Orland, Andreas
A1  - Posadzy, Kinga
T1  - Fairness versus efficiency
BT  - how procedural fairness concerns affect coordination
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe
N2  - We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether procedural fairness concerns affect how well individuals are able to solve a coordination problem in a two-player Volunteer's Dilemma. Subjects receive external action recommendations, either to volunteer or to abstain from it, in order to facilitate coordination and improve efficiency. We manipulate the fairness of the recommendation procedure by varying the probabilities of receiving the disadvantageous recommendation to volunteer between players. We find evidence that while recommendations improve overall efficiency regardless of their implications for expected payoffs, there are behavioural asymmetries depending on the recommendation: advantageous recommendations are followed less frequently than disadvantageous ones and beliefs about others' actions are more pessimistic in the treatment with recommendations inducing unequal expected payoffs.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 117 
KW  - coordination
KW  - correlated equilibrium
KW  - recommendations
KW  - procedural fairness
KW  - volunteer’s  dilemma
KW  - experiment
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-432611
SN  - 1867-5808
IS  - 117
SP  - 601
EP  - 626
ER  -