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Strategizing in small group decision-making: Host state identification for radioactive waste disposal among eight southern states

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Coates, D; Munger, MC
Published in: Public Choice
January 1, 1995

Experimental work in economics has long focussed attention on strategic interaction amongst individuals. A robust result is that a large fraction of participants in public goods experiments act cooperatively. This paper tests for the extent of strategic behavior in a non-laboratory setting. These data were generated when representatives from eight southeastern states voted to identify one state as host for a regional disposal facility for low-level radioactive waste. We find that no state plays its dominant (free-riding) strategy, but none plays in a completely cooperative fashion either. This result is similar to that found in laboratory public goods experiments. © 1995 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

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Public Choice

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EISSN

1573-7101

ISSN

0048-5829

Publication Date

January 1, 1995

Volume

82

Issue

1-2

Start / End Page

1 / 15

Related Subject Headings

  • Economics
  • 4408 Political science
  • 3801 Applied economics
  • 1606 Political Science
  • 1402 Applied Economics
 

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Coates, D., & Munger, M. C. (1995). Strategizing in small group decision-making: Host state identification for radioactive waste disposal among eight southern states. Public Choice, 82(1–2), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01047726
Coates, D., and M. C. Munger. “Strategizing in small group decision-making: Host state identification for radioactive waste disposal among eight southern states.” Public Choice 82, no. 1–2 (January 1, 1995): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01047726.
Coates, D., and M. C. Munger. “Strategizing in small group decision-making: Host state identification for radioactive waste disposal among eight southern states.” Public Choice, vol. 82, no. 1–2, Jan. 1995, pp. 1–15. Scopus, doi:10.1007/BF01047726.
Journal cover image

Published In

Public Choice

DOI

EISSN

1573-7101

ISSN

0048-5829

Publication Date

January 1, 1995

Volume

82

Issue

1-2

Start / End Page

1 / 15

Related Subject Headings

  • Economics
  • 4408 Political science
  • 3801 Applied economics
  • 1606 Political Science
  • 1402 Applied Economics