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Contractarian Compliance and the 'Sense of Justice': A Behavioral Conformity Model and Its Experimental Support
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Lorenzo Sacconi
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January 12, 2016
Abstract
The social contract approach to the study if institutions aims at providing a solution to the problem of compliance with rational agreements in situations characterized by a conflict between individual rationality and social optimality. After a short discussion of some attempts to deal with this problem from a rational choice perspective, we focus on John Rawls's idea of 'sense of justice' and its application to the explanation of the stability of a well-ordered society. We show how the relevant features of Rawls's theory can be captured by a behavioral game theory model of beliefs dependent dispositions to comply, and we present the results of two experimental studies that provide support to the theory.
Published Online: 2016-01-12
Published in Print: 2011-05-01
© 2011 by Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart
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- On the Logic and Ethics of Cooperation
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- The Idiocy of Strategic Reasoning. Towards an Account of Consensual Action
- Comment on Hans Bernhard Schmid. Coordination, Cooperation and the Origin of Normative Expectations
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