Citizen science is a multilayered concept. Although it generally understood as form of public engagement with and technology, can take various forms, widely different roles for citizens. Despite this vastness, “contributory” strand citizen dominates the field, which formally limits citizens’ to those data gatherers professional scientists or experts. This has led critics argue that not inclusiv...

We report experimental results on voluntary contributions to public-goods provision from situations in which parties can create institutions to impose a certain contribution level on its members. We focus on a public-goods game where the joint decisions inside the institution are made based on the plurality voting rule. We show that, comparing to the unanimity voting rule, the plurality rule re...

We investigate voting under the perspective of a strategic game. We take into account that the agents are members of a social network in which every group of individuals has consideration for their relatives. Agents are not fully selfish as they are reluctent to act in a way that harm their partners. The associated notion of equilibrium was introduced by Hoefer et al. [7] and called considerate...

According to Olson’s concept of encompassing organizations, strong two-party, plurality oriented political systems should create more ‘responsible’ public policies than ‘weak’ multi-party governments based on proportional representation. An empirical measure of ‘encompassment’, termed popular cabinet support, is developed and tested in a multivariate controlled statistical analysis of 18 indust...

The needed amount of information to make a social choice is the cost of information processing, and it is a practically important feature of social choice rules. We introduce informational aspects into the analysis of social choice rules and prove that (i) if an anonymous, neutral, and monotonic social choice rule operates on minimal informational requirements, then it is a supercorrespondence ...