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Here is a working paper by the author you can download on the same topic openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2…
People don't always do what is required of them. They refuse to be robots despite all incentives and benefits to be so. From the agents of the rule maker to the subjects of sovereignty.
So the question of why rules are not constantly effective in changing society in the ways the rules state out to be. The psychological/social concept of belief needs to incorporated into models of how to predict how effective a rule will be.
The law “jottings on paper” can do nothing but affect the belief of individuals. If individuals refuse to have belief in it. To accept the focal nature to coordinate behaviour, it is useless.
Laws are suggestions cloaked in legitimacy towards human coordination. Law has limitations in directing human society. In societies where there is a good deal of corruption, the law is trying to enforce behaviour among law enforcers that is not in their interests, & so will fail.
Social norms play a role in establishing beliefs and what helps towards what is a belief that either aids or stops enforcement of law and coordination of society.
The above points are best noticed when seeking to coordinate a society through modernization efforts, colonialism etc Challenges Hobbesian model of state. And asks we need to incorporate beliefs, legitimacy in the problems of the "new world".
There is a lot of game theory in the book. That gets a bit annoying but if you can get through it. You understand the points betters. End.
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