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Title	Replication data for: Responsibility Attribution for Collective Decision Makers

Identifier	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/25615

Creator	Duch, Raymond

Publisher	Harvard Dataverse

Description	We argue that individuals have general responsibility attribution heuristics that apply to collective decisions made, for example, by families, teams within firms, boards in international organisations or coalition governments. We conduct laboratory and online survey experiments designed to tease out the heuristics subjects use in their responsibility attribution for collective decision makers. The lab experiments comprise a collective dictator game in which decision makers have weighted votes and recipients can punish individual decision makers. Our results show that recipients punish unfair allocations and mainly target the decision maker with proposal power and with the largest vote share. We find weak evidence that decision makers with veto power are targeted or that recipients punish proportional to weighted voting power. The online survey experiment demonstrates that subjects indeed believe that the decision maker with proposal power has the most influence on the collective decision outcome. We discuss the implications of our findings for theories of vote choice.

Subject	Social Sciences Responsibility attribution Political agenda Proposal power Veto Collective decision making Dictators Coalitions Voting

Contributor	Raymond Duch

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