Sociological Theory and Methods
Online ISSN : 1881-6495
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Evolution of Evaluating Strategy during Consensus Makings
Jun KOBAYASHI
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2000 Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 181-196

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     This article argues that, during repeated unanimous consensus makings, evaluating strategies that assign a whole weight to a specific individual are evolutionarily stable. Evaluating strategies represent ways of evaluating alternatives with respect to others' utilities. I derive the following three conclusions: first, when a consensus is reached by two individuals, the maximin strategy evolves rather than the utilitarian strategy or the selfish strategy. Second, this result is robust for consensuses comprising two or more individuals. Finally, in general, concerns for a specific individual evolve.
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© 2000 Japanese Association For Mathematical Sociology
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