'maintain cooperation' is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
You can use it to indicate that two or more people should continue to cooperate with each other. For example: "We must make every attempt to maintain cooperation between our two departments."
The leading eight: social norms that can maintain cooperation by indirect reciprocity.
Does this reasoning imply that reciprocity cannot maintain cooperation in large groups?
Here we demonstrate a method by which reciprocity can maintain cooperation in a large-scale public goods game (PGG).
And indeed, our experimental findings demonstrate that reciprocity can in fact maintain cooperation in large groups, if each individual has even a very small number of pairwise interactions.
The conspirators met in suburban Paris hotels for meetings termed "store checks".But the report also illustrates how difficult it was to maintain cooperation.
Much less is known, however, about how to maintain cooperation in large groups (which are by definition harder to study in the laboratory).
Our results show that interference also maintains cooperation in a classic, cooperative symbiosis, thus linking theories of virulence and mutualism.
Most previous studies have found punishment to be more effective than reward for maintaining cooperation in public goods games.
The findings indicated that over the years the BND whittled down the list of thousands of NSA targets while still maintaining cooperation.
Counterintuitively, increasing the sanctioning power of the central institution makes things even worse, since this prevents peer punishers from playing a role in maintaining cooperation.
After a year in which emerging markets like Argentina and Turkey were clobbered, the most important thing for Ukraine investors is that the new president maintains cooperation with the International Monetary Fund.
