Includes bibliographical references and index.

Building a framework for contextualizing compliance / Saba Siddiki, Tanya Heikkila, and Salvador Espinosa -- Policy compliance : personal, social, and institutional motivations / Saba Siddiki -- What comes after marijuana legalization? : an exploratory assessment of users' attitudes towards rule compliance / Salvador Espinosa -- Voluntary compliance in environmental programs / Cali Curley and William L. Swann -- Procedural justice and compliance in problem-solving courts / Bradley Ray and Cindy Brooks Dollar -- Investigating compliance at the macro-level : the case of US interstate river compacts / Tanya Heikkila and Edella Schlager -- Police non-compliance : why law enforcers may deviate from laws, rules and reform mandates / Stuart Henry, Joshua Chanin, Megan Welsh, and Dana Nurge -- Humanistic rational choice and compliance motivation in complex societal dilemmas / Daniel A. DeCaro -- Conclusion / Tanya Heikkila, Salvador Espinosa, Saba Siddiki.

Studying compliance to uncover whether compliance is occurring, and what motivates it, is central to the broader study of governance. Contextualizing Compliance in the Public Sector: Individual Motivations, Social Processes and Institutional Design develops an interdisciplinary approach for answering a classic and essential question in any rule-governed context: What factors influence the decision of an individual or organization to comply (or not) with governing rules?　



Analyzing compliance from an interdisciplinary and multi-level perspective, this book examines the question of what motivates compliance in the context of salient policy issues, such as energy policy, water governance, police profiling, and drug policy, among others. The book brings together an interdisciplinary group of experts who explore the psychological, social, and institutional factors that shape compliance with formal rules embodied in laws and regulations and/or informal rules embodied in social norms. In doing so, they offer a platform for assessing individual compliance, compliance by or in the context of groups, and compliance on a systemic or societal level.



Contextualizing Compliance in the Public Sector: Individual Motivations, Social Processes and Institutional Designis an excellent resource for researchers and scholars of public administration and public policy conducting research on compliance, rules, behavior, and policy outcomes.