Tolerance of noncompliance: Discretion rather than simple rules?
Autores
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Álvaro Forteza
Universidad de la República
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Cecilia Noboa
Universidad de la República
Resumo
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.
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Discretion, commitment, simple rules, informality, enforcement
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