Max Planck Lawcast
Max Planck Lawcast
Max Planck Law
Doing It Right, Doing It Wrong - Experimental Evidence on the Expressive Power of Legal Mechanisms
26 minutes Posted Jul 29, 2024 at 12:00 pm.
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Guest: Mahdi Khesali (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)
Normative ambiguity, which stems from conflicting norms, can lead to inefficiency and self-serving behaviour. In this episode, Mahdi Khesali introduces a study that he and his colleague Yoan Hermstrüwer have conducted. Based on a 'stealing game', Mahdi discusses how voting on a given moral norm affects our moral compass. The findings emphasize the importance of expressive law and how effectively-designed voting mechanisms can communicate normative consensus.
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