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A democratic voting mechanism that allows individuals to choose between egalitarian and non-egalitarian allocation rules stabilizes cooperation in social dilemmas by forming a self-organized spatial protective layer that shields cooperators from exploitation. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.NOVEL_FINDING. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

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This research aims to explore how voting-based allocation affects cooperation in social dilemmas.

June 3, 2026Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science

Spatial protection of cooperation by voting-based allocation

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KGKeyu GuoUniversity of Finance and Economics XLXiaogang LiUniversity of Finance and Economics WWWei WangUniversity of Finance and Economics

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Randomized trial reveals how voting influences cooperation in social dilemmas, suggesting a new way to stabilize group dynamics.

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This research aims to explore how voting-based allocation affects cooperation in social dilemmas.
Developed an evolutionary game framework incorporating voting-based allocation rules.
Individuals voted between egalitarian and non-egalitarian allocation rules, modulated by incentive weight.
Analyzed the impact of voting dynamics on cooperation trajectories.
Cooperation exhibited a non-monotonic trajectory influenced by voting dynamics.
At moderate incentive weights, a protective layer of defectors emerged that shielded cooperators from exploitation.
Increased incentives weakened the protective layer and shifted dynamics towards direct competition.

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Guo et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1fc4e4dee9eb8c0dce6535 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0333253

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