Affidavit aversion: Public preferences for trust-based policy instruments

IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 LAW
Rinat Hilo-Merkovich, Eyal Peer, Yuval Feldman
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Abstract

Regulators who aim to reduce administrative burdens often promote trust-based policy instruments, such as legal affidavits or honesty pledges, as substitutes to traditional bureaucratic procedures. However, little is known on how the general public view such instruments, and whether people would actually comply with them, and under what circumstances. Using a series of experimental vignettes, we examine public preferences toward these instruments under different conditions and contexts. We find that overall, people exhibit an aversion to using affidavits, even when they are inexpensive and can save a considerable amount of time compared to the traditional bureaucratic procedure. In contrast, honesty pledges are largely preferred over both the standard procedure and signing an affidavit. We discuss factors influencing the public choice of trust-based instruments and offer recommendations to help policymakers promote public compliance using behaviorally informed policy instruments.
厌恶宣誓书:公众对基于信任的政策工具的偏好
旨在减轻行政负担的监管机构往往提倡以信任为基础的政策工具,如法律宣誓书或诚实承诺,作为传统官僚程序的替代品。然而,对于公众如何看待这些文书,以及人们是否会真正遵守这些文书,以及在什么情况下遵守这些文书,人们知之甚少。使用一系列的实验小插曲,我们检查了公众对这些工具在不同条件和背景下的偏好。我们发现,总的来说,人们对使用宣誓书表现出厌恶,即使它们不贵,而且与传统的官僚程序相比,可以节省大量的时间。相比之下,诚实承诺在很大程度上比标准程序和签署宣誓书更受欢迎。我们讨论了影响公众选择基于信任的工具的因素,并提供建议,以帮助政策制定者使用行为知情的政策工具促进公众遵守。
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期刊介绍: Regulation & Governance serves as the leading platform for the study of regulation and governance by political scientists, lawyers, sociologists, historians, criminologists, psychologists, anthropologists, economists and others. Research on regulation and governance, once fragmented across various disciplines and subject areas, has emerged at the cutting edge of paradigmatic change in the social sciences. Through the peer-reviewed journal Regulation & Governance, we seek to advance discussions between various disciplines about regulation and governance, promote the development of new theoretical and empirical understanding, and serve the growing needs of practitioners for a useful academic reference.
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