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Can justice be fair when it is blind? How social network structures can promote or prevent the evolution of despotism
2018
The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life
unpublished
Hierarchy is an efficient way for a group to organize, but often goes along with inequality that benefits leaders. To control despotic behaviour, followers can assess leaders' decisions by aggregating their own and their neighbours' experience, and in response challenge despotic leaders. But in hierarchical social networks, this interactional justice can be limited by (i) the high influence of a small clique who are treated better, and (ii) the low connectedness of followers. Here we study how
doi:10.1162/isal_a_00058
fatcat:rb2ezvevdnbkxas3baxitdm6xm