When violence is available, the social payoff of cooperating with the occupier flips: cooperation can be rewarded as a badge of honor or punished as a badge of shame through social norms, cultural responses, or actual murder of collaborators, which alters citizens' incentives dramatically.

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Speaker

Russ Roberts

Evidence Quote

that badge of shame can be created by social norms cultural responses or death by violence and murder for people who cooperate

Source

Christopher Coyne on Exporting Democracy after War 04/07/2008EconTalk
Created: 6/15/2026, 9:29:02 AM

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