Group-Oriented Values, Rules and Cooperation
Published By: UNU-WIDER on eSS | Published Date: December, 15 , 2004This paper uses a game-theoretic framework to explain how collectivist values hamper
societies’ efforts to elicit cooperation in inter-group games of prisoners’ dilemma (PD) and
draws on the results of the analysis to interpret the meanings of three historical institutional
reform episodes. Group-oriented values, widespread throughout non-western civilizations,
can contribute to social cohesion, but tend to cause inter-group conflicts within a country.
Regional, ethnic, and other internally cohesive groups often cannot get out of defection
traps in political and economic PD games they play with each other. [Research Paper No. 2004/66]
Author(s): Ke-young Chu | Posted on: Dec 15, 2010 | Views(841) | Download (170)