TY - JOUR AU - Forteza, Álvaro AU - Noboa, Cecilia PY - 2019/03/27 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Tolerance of noncompliance: Discretion rather than simple rules? JF - Estudios de Economía JA - Estudios de economía VL - 46 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://estudiosdeeconomia.uchile.cl/index.php/EDE/article/view/52634 SP - 31-59 AB - We argue that societies sometimes choose not to enforce the law to gain “flexibility”. Especially developing countries face a dilemma between discretion and commitment to only partially-contingent rules. Rules are good for incentives, but discretion may be more “flexible”. We embed this dilemma in a political model and show that citizens will not support strong enforcement institutions unless the state is able to commit to sufficiently sophisticated redistributive policies. ER -