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.
Author: Yuval Feldman Publisher: Cambridge University Press Published: 05/16/2019 Pages: 256 Binding Type: Paperback Weight: 0.77lbs Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54d ISBN: 9781316502082
About the Author Feldman, Yuval: - Yuval Feldman is the Mori Lazarof Professor of Legal Research at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He holds a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley (2004). His research focuses on compliance, ethical decision-making, and empirical legal studies. He has co-authored more than fifty papers and has won more than twenty research grants and fellowships, including one at the Safra Lab at Harvard Law School. Feldman is a Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, where he advises various governmental bodies on the usage of behavioral sciences, in areas related to regulatory design, corruption and enforcement. In 2016 he was elected to the Israel Young Academy.
