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    The prisoner's dilemma provided a unifying model for repr... — Carmelics
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    The prisoner's dilemma provided a unifying model for representing collective action failures across the social sciences.

    Democracy & GovernanceSocial Contract
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    • 1.Samuelson (1954), Hardin (1968), and Olson (1965) each independently identified cases where a common interest among individuals failed to produce incentives for collectively beneficial action.
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    • 2.The prisoner's dilemma game matrix offers a simple yet powerful formal structure.
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    • 3.That formal structure can represent the logic underlying all such collective action failure interactions.
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    • 1.The prisoner's dilemma requires that defection be a dominant strategy, but many collective action failures (e.g., assurance games, stag hunts) lack this property.
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    • 2.Schelling (1960) and Sen (1967) demonstrated that coordination problems with multiple equilibria have a fundamentally different logic than prisoner's dilemmas.
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    • 3.Collapsing structurally distinct interaction types into one model obscures the different institutional remedies each requires, undermining the claim of unification.
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    • 1.Elinor Ostrom's empirical work showed that communities routinely solve collective action problems without the defection logic the prisoner's dilemma predicts as dominant.
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    • 2.Ostrom argued that the prisoner's dilemma framework imports assumptions of fixed preferences and no communication that distort rather than represent real collective action situations.
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    • 3.A model that systematically mispredicts outcomes in the cases it purports to unify lacks the explanatory authority required to serve as a genuine unifying framework.
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    Thus the concern over methodological individualism began to fade away, and might have disappeared completely had it not been for the sudden explosion of interest in game theory (or “rational choice theory”) among social scientists in the 1980s. The reason for this can be summed up in two words (and an article): the prisoner’s dilemma. Social scientists had always been aware that individuals in groups are capable of getting stuck in patterns of collectively self-defeating behavior. Paul Samuelson
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