Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance
- The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Compliance as the Interaction between Rules and Behavior
- Part I Compliance Concepts and Approaches
- Part II Deterrence and Incapacitation
- Part III Incentives
- Part IV Legitimacy and Social Norms
- Part V Capacity and Opportunity
- Part VI Compliance and Cognition
- Part VII Management and Organizational Processes
- Part VIII Measuring and Evaluating Compliance
- 48 Laboratory Experiments
- 49 Compliance Experiments in the Field: Features, Limitations, and Examples
- 50 Naming and Shaming: Evidence from Event Studies
- 51 Validity Concerns about Self-Reported Surveys on Rule Compliance
- 52 Factorial Surveys and Crime Vignettes
- 53 Qualitative Methods and the Compliance Imagination
- 54 Policy Evaluation
- Part IX Analysis of Particular Fields
- References
49 - Compliance Experiments in the Field: Features, Limitations, and Examples
from Part VIII - Measuring and Evaluating Compliance
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance
- The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 Introduction: Compliance as the Interaction between Rules and Behavior
- Part I Compliance Concepts and Approaches
- Part II Deterrence and Incapacitation
- Part III Incentives
- Part IV Legitimacy and Social Norms
- Part V Capacity and Opportunity
- Part VI Compliance and Cognition
- Part VII Management and Organizational Processes
- Part VIII Measuring and Evaluating Compliance
- 48 Laboratory Experiments
- 49 Compliance Experiments in the Field: Features, Limitations, and Examples
- 50 Naming and Shaming: Evidence from Event Studies
- 51 Validity Concerns about Self-Reported Surveys on Rule Compliance
- 52 Factorial Surveys and Crime Vignettes
- 53 Qualitative Methods and the Compliance Imagination
- 54 Policy Evaluation
- Part IX Analysis of Particular Fields
- References
Summary
Abstract: Randomized experiments are broadly considered to be the gold standard for making empirically informed causal claims. Field experiments (often called randomized controlled trials or RCTs) are randomized studies that feature naturalistic context, participants, treatments, and outcomes in order to provide researchers and policy-makers with the most accurate vision of how laws and practices will play out in the real world. This methodology is particularly well-suited for evaluating if, how, and why individuals and organizations respond to rules and regulations and should be an essential piece in the puzzle of compliance studies. This chapter begins with a brief primer on field experiments, outlining why randomized experiments are so valuable as a methodological tool and how the unique attributes of field experiments provide a distinct set of benefits from similar causality-focused approaches such as laboratory experiments and natural experiments. The chapter then highlights the important assumptions and practical difficulties in conducting and analyzing field experiments, paying particular attention to how these factors can be limitations when studying compliance. The chapter concludes by considering what sorts of compliance-related field experiments are possible by focusing on two areas in which their use is well established – tax compliance and criminal deterrence – and then highlights individual experiments testing a diversity of substantive topics less commonly explored by field experimentalists such as international law, food safety inspections, and the behavior of political elites.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance , pp. 728 - 747Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021