Doing It Right, Doing It Wrong - Experimental Evidence on the Expressive Power of Legal Mechanisms

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. (Audio Production: www.citysoundstudio.de)