"scheme of cooperation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a plan or arrangement for working together with others towards a common goal or objective. It can be used in various contexts, such as business, government, or personal relationships. Example: The two companies have agreed to a scheme of cooperation to develop new technologies together.
Factors beyond anyone's individual power to control importantly affect her good fortune or bad fortune under the existing scheme of cooperation in her political community; hence what one owes to other fellow cooperators by way of reciprocity takes the form of egalitarian justice requirements along the lines of the difference principle.
If a scheme of cooperation simply thrusts benefits on people as the unavoidable fall-out of the cooperative activity of others even very valuable benefits—any duty of compliance would have to be justified by one of the non-voluntary principles considered above.
The "Concert of Europe" these men inaugurated was an informal scheme of cooperation among the great powers, which would aim at the maintenance of an overall balance of power and try to prevent crises, wherever they arose, from spiralling out of control.
According to Rawls, a just society is a fair scheme of cooperation among persons regarded as free and equal.
If stringent egalitarian duties to needy people arise only because the needy participate in a scheme of cooperation with the non-needy, then strategic action to avoid the duties seems permissible.
The core idea is that those who accept the benefits of fair scheme of cooperation have a duty to do their allotted part under that scheme: if others obey the law to our benefit, we owe them a duty not to take a free-ride on their compliance.
Instead the state can pursue the latter goal less intrusively by formalizing schemes of cooperation among parents in different kinds of relationships.
The contemporary liberal political philosopher John Rawls continues to speak of bounded communities whose fundamental structure consists of "self-sufficient schemes of cooperation for all the essential purposes of human life" (Rawls 1993, 301).
It is no longer self-evident that nation-states can be described as "self-sufficient schemes of cooperation for all the essential purposes of human life" in the context of intense deterritorialization and the spread and intensification of social relations across borders.
They may lack sufficient material or social resources to support a scheme of social cooperation, perhaps having allowed population growth beyond their territory's current means.
But Rawls's stability requirement implies more than just 'ought implies can.' It says that principles of justice and the scheme of social cooperation they describe should evince "stablility for the right reasons" (PL xliii, CP 589).
