The collapse of cooperation: the endogeneity of institutional break-up and its asymmetry with emergence

Abstract Decline and break-up of institutionalized cooperation, at all levels, has occurred frequently. Some its concomitants, such as international migration, have become topical in the globalized world. Aspects phenomenon also known failing states. However, focus most social sciences been on institutional emergence persistence, not collapse. We develop an endogenous explanation collapsing institutions. Collapse may be implication very economic success cooperation increasing system complexity, when cognitive conditions for effective collective decision-making do proportionately evolve. Moreover, we show that collapse is a simple logical reverse emergence. Rather, institutions break up different factor constellations than ones prevailing approach asymmetry from various paradigmatic disciplinary perspectives, employing psychology, anthropology, network analysis, economics. These perspectives cover individuals, groups, interaction-arenas, populations, networks.