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Outline. Institutional effects and terminology Institutional effectiveness in the real world Compliance vs. effectiveness Why nations change their behavior Why nations DON’T change their behavior Sources of behavior change in face of incentives not to do so Six types of social control.

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  1. Outline • Institutional effects and terminology • Institutional effectiveness in the real world • Compliance vs. effectiveness • Why nations change their behavior • Why nations DON’T change their behavior • Sources of behavior change in face of incentives not to do so • Six types of social control

  2. Institutional effects and terminology • Terms: implementation, monitoring, enforcement • Compliance – behavior <> legal rules • Effectiveness • Counterfactual • Behavioral • Environmental quality • Goal achievement • Behavioral • Environmental quality • Other effects

  3. Compliance vs. Effectiveness • Choosing an INDICATOR of influence • Outputs (laws) • Outcomes (behavior) • Impacts (environmental quality) • Choosing a COMPARATOR of influence (what do we compare the OBSERVED indicator to) • Legal standard (compliance) is not causal in nature • Goal achievement is simply unlikely to occur • Counterfactual: this gets at causation explicitly • BUT ALSO, want to look at other effects we care about

  4. Compliance vs. Effectiveness

  5. Institutional effectiveness in the real world • Kyoto and compliance • Fisheries and compliance

  6. Why nations DOchange their behavior • Independent self-interest (narrow) • Independent self-interest (broad) • Interdependent self-interest

  7. Why nations DON’T change their behavior • Intention • Incapacity • Inadvertence

  8. Sources of behavior change in face of incentives not to do so • Specificity • Transparency • Reciprocity and iteration • Compliance/effectiveness subsystems • Primary rule subsystem • Information subsystem • Response subsystem

  9. Six types of social control • Consequences: change costs to HAVE engaged in behavior • Deterrence – increase expected costs of violation • Remuneration – increase expected benefit of compliance • Opportunities: change costs/option TO engage in behavior • Generative – new capacities and opportunities • Preclusive – remove opportunities • Perceptions: change perceived costs to engage in behavior • Cognitive – new information • Normative – new values • Which strategies are available depends on type of problem

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