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Currently, the dominant enforcement paradigm is based on the idea
that states deal with 'bad people' - or those pursuing their own
self-interests - with laws that exact a price for misbehavior
through sanctions and punishment. At the same time, by contrast,
behavioral ethics posits that 'good people' are guided by cognitive
processes and biases that enable them to bend the laws within the
confines of their conscience. In this illuminating book, Yuval
Feldman analyzes these paradigms and provides a broad theoretical
and empirical comparison of traditional and non-traditional
enforcement mechanisms to advance our understanding of how states
can better deal with misdeeds committed by normative citizens
blinded by cognitive biases regarding their own ethicality. By
bridging the gap between new findings of behavioral ethics and
traditional methods used to modify behavior, Feldman proposes a
'law of good people' that should be read by scholars and
policymakers around the world.
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