Below, you will be given an assignment. Once you have read the disclaimers and the assignment below, you may continue to the next page and vote in each election. After you finished voting in every election, you need to wait for the other players to finish to know your payoff, but you do not have to stay on the page for that as long as you do not close it.
As this is a pilot, no monetary payoff will be given. The experimenter might pay you in m&m's, however.
Only your choices will be recorded and cannot be tracked back to you afterwards, as they do not contain personal information.
You play the role of a student, and so do all the other human participants of the experiment. In order to fund a series of six projects at your university, there are three funding proposals for each: the students' proposal, the professors' proposal and the university direction's proposal. These proposals vary in how much they use the students as source of funding, with the funding being assured and the project implemented in each proposal. The funding proposal with the most votes wins and in case of equality of votes, the university direction's proposal wins. There is a certain amount of bot voters (the professors and the staff) that support and always vote for the university direction's and the professors' proposal. This amount varies from project to project and it will be communicated to you. Also, the amount of students (human participants) that vote with you varies from project to project and will be communicated to you.
Because of the implementation of the projects, you get €22 in all cases. There are six elections in which you vote together with a varying, anonymous set of the other seven human participants (all students) who all are affected in the same way as you by the funding proposals. Each time the professors' proposal wins, you pay €0.50 of taxes. Each time the students' proposal wins, you do not pay taxes at all. Each time the university direction's proposal wins, you must pay €4 of taxes. No matter which option wins, you obtain an additional €0.05 each time you vote for the students' proposal, and you obtain no extra money if you vote for any of the other two proposals.
For each round, the varying information about the amount of bots and the amount of players that vote with you will be displayed. There will also be an adapted full statement in case you do not remember it well. You will be notified in the very end, after having voted in each election and having waited for the other players, about the outcome of each election and the money that you may keep (your take-home payoff from this experiment, it is at least €1.50). You will also be asked a question on each of your decisions which does not affect your payoff.
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