Enumerating rights: more is not always better

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dc.contributor.authorBall, Sheryl B.en
dc.contributor.authorDave, Chetanen
dc.contributor.authorDodds, Stefanen
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-04T18:56:33Zen
dc.date.available2025-02-04T18:56:33Zen
dc.date.issued2023-05-11en
dc.description.abstractContemporary political and policy debate rhetoric increasingly employs the language of ‘rights’: how they are assigned and what entitlements individuals in a society are due. While the obvious constitution design issues surround how rights enumeration affects the relationship between a government and its citizens, we instead analyze how rights framing impacts how citizens interact with each other. We design and implement a novel experiment to test whether social cooperation depends on the enumeration and positive or negative framing of the right of subjects to take a particular action. We find that when rights are framed positively, there exists an ‘entitlement effect’ that reduces social cooperation levels and crowds-out the tendency of individuals to act pro-socially.en
dc.description.versionSubmitted versionen
dc.format.extent23 page(s)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-023-01053-0en
dc.identifier.eissn1573-7101en
dc.identifier.issn0048-5829en
dc.identifier.issue3-4en
dc.identifier.orcidBall, Sheryl [0000-0003-1178-7454]en
dc.identifier.otherPMC10174622en
dc.identifier.other1053 (PII)en
dc.identifier.pmid37360987en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10919/124487en
dc.identifier.volume196en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.relation.urihttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37360987en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectConstitutional designen
dc.subjectCoase theoremen
dc.subjectFramingen
dc.subjectPreferencesen
dc.subjectRightsen
dc.subjectBattle of the sexesen
dc.titleEnumerating rights: more is not always betteren
dc.title.serialPublic Choiceen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.otherArticleen
dc.type.otherEarly Accessen
dc.type.otherJournalen
dcterms.dateAccepted2023-03-24en
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Techen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Scienceen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Science/Economicsen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Faculty of Health Sciencesen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/All T&R Facultyen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Science/COS T&R Facultyen

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