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Impact - How Law Affects Behavior (Hardcover)
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Impact - How Law Affects Behavior (Hardcover)
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Laws and regulations are ubiquitous, touching on many aspects of
individual and corporate behavior. But under what conditions are
laws and rules actually effective? A huge amount of recent work in
political science, sociology, economics, criminology, law, and
psychology, among other disciplines, deals with this question. But
these fields rarely inform one another, leaving the state of
research disjointed and disorganized. Lawrence M. Friedman finds
order in this cacophony. Impact gathers recent findings into one
overarching analysis and lays the groundwork for a cohesive body of
work in what Friedman labels "impact studies." The first important
factor that has a bearing on impact is communication. A rule or law
has no effect if it never reaches its intended audience. The
public's fund of legal knowledge, the clarity of the law, and the
presence of information brokers all influence the flow of
information from lawmakers to citizens. After a law is
communicated, subjects sometimes comply, sometimes resist, and
sometimes adjust or evade. Three clusters of motives help shape
which reaction will prevail: first, rewards and punishments;
second, peer group influences; and third, issues of conscience,
legitimacy, and morality. When all of these factors move in the
same direction, law can have a powerful impact; when they conflict,
the outcome is sometimes unpredictable.
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