Powers, Simon T., Ekárt, Anikó and Lewis, Peter (2018). Modelling enduring institutions: The complementarity of evolutionary and agent-based approaches. Cognitive Systems Research, 52 , pp. 67-81.
Abstract
Empirical work has shown that societies can sometimes avoid antisocial outcomes, such as the Tragedy of the Commons, by establishing institutional rules that govern their interactions. Moreover, groups are more likely to avoid antisocial outcomes when they design and enforce their own rules. But this raises the question: when will group members put effort into maintaining their institution so that it continues to provide socially beneficial outcomes? Ostrom derived a set of empirical principles that predict when institutions will endure, which have subsequently been formalised in agent-based models that are based on an executable description of the content of an individual’s behaviour. Here we show how these models can be complemented by evolutionary game theory, which focuses on the value or payoff of different behaviours, rather than on the mechanistic content of the behaviour. Using such a value-based model, we determine exactly when individuals will be incentivised to maintain their institution and enforce its rules, including the critical amount that a group must invest into incentivising agents to monitor rule compliance. We highlight the complementarity of content-based and value-based modelling approaches, and therefore provide a step towards unifying theoretical and empirical approaches to understanding enduring institutions and other social phenomena.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2018.04.012 |
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Divisions: | College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI) ?? 50811700Jl ?? College of Engineering & Physical Sciences |
Additional Information: | © 2018, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Institutions,Evolutionary game theory,Agent-based modelling |
Publication ISSN: | 1389-0417 |
Last Modified: | 02 Oct 2024 07:32 |
Date Deposited: | 29 Jun 2018 07:20 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2018-12-01 |
Published Online Date: | 2018-06-28 |
Accepted Date: | 2018-04-28 |
Authors: |
Powers, Simon T.
Ekárt, Anikó ( 0000-0001-6967-5397) Lewis, Peter ( 0000-0003-4271-8611) |
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