Cantankerous Cooperation: Democracies, Authoritarian Regimes, and the Prisoner's Dilemma

Groups, Decision Rules, and Negotiation Outcomes: Simulating the Negotiator's Dilemma

“…The agent learning aspect of Macy's simulation, along with the probabilistic behavior of agents, lends itself to exploring changes to agent behavior when different features of the game (or of the agents themselves) are changed. Joseph Young and I (Young and Urlacher ; Urlacher ) adapted Macy's approach to allow for groups of agents rather than individual agents to select strategies of cooperation and defection. The Young and Urlacher () study found that a majoritarian decision rule produced higher levels of cooperation than an authoritarian decision rule.…”

“…Joseph Young and I (Young and Urlacher ; Urlacher ) adapted Macy's approach to allow for groups of agents rather than individual agents to select strategies of cooperation and defection. The Young and Urlacher () study found that a majoritarian decision rule produced higher levels of cooperation than an authoritarian decision rule. While these earlier studies provide the basic framework for thinking about how to build a simulation of the negotiator's dilemma, a number of adaptations were needed to apply the stochastic learning approach developed by Macy to negotiations.…”