Title :
Collective Action and Agent-Based Models: Adding Diversity to a Rational Choice Model
Author :
Mattar, L. ; Reis, B.P.W.
Author_Institution :
Political Sci. Dept., UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Abstract :
Integrating "diversity" into rational choice models is key to achieve interesting results on collective action in which there is alternation between cooperation and defection in a feedback way. As agent-based models are useful tools to handle flexible assumptions on strategic behavior in simulated environments, in this paper it is shown how this methodological approach could help to reach this objective.
Keywords :
decision theory; social sciences; agent based model; collective action; diversity integration; rational choice model; Adaptation models; Automata; Biological system modeling; Cultural differences; Game theory; Games; Production; agent-based models; collective action theory; cooperation; diversity; game theory; public choice; rational choice theory; rationality; social norms; social science; solidarity; values;
Conference_Titel :
Social Simulation (BWSS), 2010 Second Brazilian Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0895-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4471-7
DOI :
10.1109/BWSS.2010.11
