Self-enforcing constraints can induce honest behavior from dishonest actors.
Evidence
But the introduction of realistic constraints on the behavior of drivers reveals that cheating runs up against several self-enforcing boundaries which may induce even dishonest drivers to behave. — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 595
Categorization
Category: Connection Points
- XREF: Direct echo of Schelling’s credible-commitments idea and self-enforcing equilibria — precisely the theoretical toolkit the reader is testing against the novel.
Related
- No one assigns infinite weight to their own honesty when incentives grow (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Extending trust can create the trustworthy behavior it presumes
#expands(0.88) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2874 - Sanctions make trustworthiness a matter of self-interest rather than personal concern
#corroborates(0.87) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 169 - Acting trustingly toward others can itself induce their trustworthiness
#expands(0.85) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 1015 - Institutional and legal constraints give people strong external incentives to be trustworthy
#corroborates(0.82) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 167 - Trustworthiness can be causally overdetermined by multiple independent motivations.
#expands(0.78) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 411 - Moral denunciation constrains behavior more effectively than merely procedural rules
#complicates(0.75) — , the-rod-and-the-child-BOOK, 2517