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SUMMARY;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Symbolic Systems Forum - Steven Brams=2C New York University Politics Department
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Steven J=2E Brams=0D=0APolitics Department=2C New York University=0D=0A=0D=0ATITLE=3A Democracy Resolves Conflict in Difficult Games=0D=0A=0D=0AABSTRACT=3A=0D=0ADemocracy resolves conflicts in difficult games like Prisoners=27 Dilemma and Chicken by stabilizing their cooperative outcomes=2E It does so by transforming these games into games in which voters are presented with a choice between a cooperative outcome and a Pareto-inferior noncooperative outcome=2E In the transformed game=2C it is always rational for voters to vote for the cooperative outcome=2C because cooperation is a weakly dominant strategy independent of the decision rule and the number of voters who choose it=2E Such games are illustrated by 2-person and n-person public-goods games=2C in which it is optimal to be free rider=2C and a biblical story from the book of Exodus=2E =28joint work with D=2E Marc Kilgour=29=0D=0A=0D=0ANote=3A For background reading=2C see items 4 and 5 at http=3A//ai=2Estanford=2Eedu/=7Eepacuit/lmh/voting-topics=2Ehtml 
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