Self-sacrifice for the Common Good under Risk and Competition: An Experimental Examination of the Impact of Public Service Motivation in a Volunteer's Dilemma Game
| Autor: | Florian Heine, A. van Witteloostuijn, Tse-Min Wang |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Ethics, Governance and Society, Tinbergen Institute, School of Business and Economics |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Public Administration Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Commit Public good Outcome (game theory) Altruism 0506 political science Dilemma Competition (economics) Public service motivation 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Public service 050207 economics Psychology Law Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 32(1), 217-232. Oxford University Press Journal of public administration research and theory Heine, F, Van Witteloostuijn, A & Wang, T M 2022, ' Self-sacrifice for the Common Good under Risk and Competition: An Experimental Examination of the Impact of Public Service Motivation in a Volunteer's Dilemma Game ', Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 217-232 . https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muab017 |
| ISSN: | 1053-1858 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/jopart/muab017 |
| Popis: | Public service-motivated individuals have a greater concern for the delivery of public services and for the societal consequence of collective inaction, seeing themselves play a pivotal role in upholding public goods. Such self-efficacy and perceived importance of public service jointly motivate individuals to commit to sacrificing for the common good. Using an incentivized laboratory experiment with 126 undergraduate and graduate students at a university in the Netherlands, we explore the association between self-reported public service motivation (PSM) and voluntary self-sacrifice under different task characteristics and social contexts in a Volunteer’s Dilemma game. We find that risk-taking and intergroup competition negatively moderate the positive effect of PSM on volunteering. The risky situation may reduce an individual’s self-efficacy in making meaningful sacrifice, and intergroup competition may divert attention away from the concern for society at large to the outcome of the competition, compromising the positive effect of PSM on the likelihood to self-sacrifice for the common good. |
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