Until recently, theorists considering the evolution of human cooperation have paid little attention to institutional … punishment, a defining feature of large-scale human societies. Compared to individually-administered punishment, institutional … punishment offers a unique potential advantage: the ability to control how quickly legal rules of punishment evolve relative to …

social and biological sciences. One possible solution is peer punishment: when agents have an opportunity to sanction … show that stochastic punishment falls short of sustaining cooperation in the repeated public good game. As punishment noise …Identifying mechanisms able to sustain costly cooperation among self-interested agents is a central problem across …

specialized enforcement technology is sufficiently effective, cooperation is best sustained by a "single enforcer punishment …We introduce the possibility of direct punishment by specialized enforcers into a model of community enforcement … following deviations by regular agent is that such actions, by reducing future cooperation, would decrease the amount of …

the accountable state by conducting a two-level public goods experiment in which civic engagement can build a sanction … taxation. In addition, we find that local social interaction among subgroups of participants also boosts cooperation. …