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Compliance Regimes and Barriers to Behavioral Change
Author(s) -
Weaver R. Kent
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
governance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.46
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1468-0491
pISSN - 0952-1895
DOI - 10.1111/gove.12032
Subject(s) - compliance (psychology) , incentive , autonomy , public economics , set (abstract data type) , business , population , resource (disambiguation) , power (physics) , politics , economics , political science , psychology , microeconomics , social psychology , medicine , law , environmental health , computer network , programming language , physics , quantum mechanics , computer science
Existing research on compliance failures by individuals and businesses focuses primarily on information and incentive problems. This article develops a comprehensive framework for analyzing barriers to compliance, giving particular attention to resource and autonomy barriers, heterogeneity of the target population, multiple barriers to compliance, and problems that arise when a complex and ongoing set of actions is require to be “in compliance.” How governments react to compliance failures is heavily influenced by the social construction and political power of target populations. The propositions developed in the article are tested against the cases of the S wedish individual account pension system and welfare reform in the U nited S tates.