Crowdfunding has become an increasingly popular means to fund the provision of public goods and especially nature conservation projects. We implement a lab-in-the-field experiment by setting up web-based user interface, very similar actual crowdfunding platforms, test whether coordination mechanisms, like seed money decoy projects, can increase effectiveness campaigns if multiple projects are e...

It is widely believed that clientelism—the giving of material goods in return for electoral support—is associated with poorer development outcomes. However, systematic cross-country evidence on the deleterious effects clientelism outcomes lacking. In this paper we examine relationship between political clientelism, public provision, and governance quality using panel data 161 countries period 1...

One important determinant of voluntary contributions to public goods is the value of the public good relative to that of the forgone private good. Isaac, Walker and Thomas (1984) formalized this relation in the Marginal Per Capita Return (MPCR) and demonstrated its influence on the provision of linear public goods. This paper develops a parallel concept, in the context of a threshold public goo...