Coercion and interests alone compel cooperation even without shared values

Evidence

The mechanisms which motivate cooperation in any form of human endeavour, as Bernard Williams explains elsewhere in this volume, comprise four basic elements: coercion, interests, values, and personal bonds. People, that is, may decide to cooperate (1) for fear of sanctions; (2) because cooperation enhances their mutual economic interests; (3) because they have general reasons, whether cultural, moral or religious, to believe that cooperation is good irrespective of sanctions and rewards; and finally (4) because they are related to one another by bonds of kin or friendship. — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2202 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Opening with cooperation is rational self-interest, not mere morality — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 544; Groups induce cooperation through sanctions even without trusting their members — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 808; Hobbesian sanctions produce egoistic macro-motivation to cooperate — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 194 (+13 more)

Related

• Cooperation rests on coercion, interests, values, and personal bonds (similarity 0.96)
• Cooperation has no single solution; motivations combine and overdetermine action (similarity 0.94)
• Honour and virtue alone can guarantee debtor reliability absent coercion (similarity 0.86)
• Opening with cooperation is rational self-interest, not mere morality (similarity 0.85)
• Violence, values, interests, and bonds are substitutable mechanisms for securing cooperation (similarity 0.84)
• Cooperation can occur without trust when incentives align (similarity 0.84)
• Violence, values, interests, and personal bonds substitute for one another in enforcing cooperation. (similarity 0.83)
• Hobbesian sanctions produce egoistic macro-motivation to cooperate (similarity 0.82)
• Groups induce cooperation through sanctions even without trusting their members (similarity 0.82)
• Cooperation requires knowing others’ motives and being believed trustworthy (similarity 0.81)
• Cooperation depends on trust plus situation-specific constraints and incentives (similarity 0.81)
• Trust requires both freedom to defect and constraints that make cooperation attractive (similarity 0.81)
• Cooperation can evolve without any trust being involved. (similarity 0.81)
• Sanctions either alter egoistic utilities or provide assurance to cooperative agents. (similarity 0.81)
• Egoistic motivations alone cannot sustain cooperation without plausible self-regulating structures (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Cooperation rests on coercion, interests, values, and personal bonds #qualifies (0.85) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2202
• Cooperation can operate independently of trust #expands (0.80)
• Cooperation can occur without trust when incentives align #corroborates (0.80)