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Type:
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Journal Article |
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Author:
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Licht, Amir N. |
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Journal:
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Review of Law and Economics |
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Volume:
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4 |
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Page(s):
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715-750 |
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Date:
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2008 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/6293
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Sector:
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Social Organization |
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Subject(s):
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law
institutions
norms
culture
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Abstract:
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"This paper explores the relations between law and social norms and in particular, the case of legal compliance in groups. Specifically, this paper argues that the rule of law is a social norm interfacing the formal institutions of society with the informal ones. As social institutions, norms should also be analyzed at the societal level - a level of analysis that neo-classical economic accounts have failed to address due to fundamental premises of current economic theory. Theories developed in psychology provide a good working framework for social norm analysis in general and of legal compliance (rule of law) in particular. Extant evidence is consistent with the present argument."
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