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He presents a technique where clans are formed as part of a self-interested activity to increase local utility or decrease the probability of failure.
His words and deeds defined the bad citizen inversely : one who succumbed to self-interested ambition and subordinated the public good to the personal.
And they miss the point precisely because of the assumption of instrumental, self-interested voters.
On a traditional interpretation of that framework, characterized by instrumentalist, self-interested voting, the arguments for representation are typically weak and second-best in nature.
Using cooperative agents in a self-interested negotiation context results in absurd behavior of the agents.
Such altruism does not necessarily preclude a preoccupation with self-interested internal occupational stratification, but there is little evidence that this was a significant motive.
However, if the offeree is rational, and believed that the offeror is rational and self-interested, the offeror is unlikely to benefit from such arrangements.
This brings us to the central question motivating the present study: why self-interested politicians would ever voluntarily limit their own power?
