Evaluating Cooperation in LLM Social Groups through Elected Leadership

arXiv:2604.11721v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Governing common-pool resources requires agents to develop enduring strategies through cooperation and self-governance to avoid collective failure. While foundation models have shown potential for cooperation in these settings, existing multi-agent research provides little insight into whether structured leadership and election mechanisms can improve collective decision making. The lack of such a critical organizational feature ubiquitous in huma