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Public Reactions to Noncompliance with Judicial Orders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 August 2021

RYAN E. CARLIN Open the ORCID record for RYAN E. CARLIN [Opens in a new window] ,
MARIANA CASTRELLÓN ,
VARUN GAURI Open the ORCID record for VARUN GAURI [Opens in a new window] ,
ISABEL C. JARAMILLO SIERRA Open the ORCID record for ISABEL C. JARAMILLO SIERRA [Opens in a new window]  and
JEFFREY K. STATON Open the ORCID record for JEFFREY K. STATON [Opens in a new window]
RYAN E. CARLIN*
Affiliation:
Georgia State University, United States
MARIANA CASTRELLÓN*
Affiliation:
Stanford University, United States
VARUN GAURI*
Affiliation:
Princeton University, United States
ISABEL C. JARAMILLO SIERRA*
Affiliation:
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia
JEFFREY K. STATON*
Affiliation:
Emory University, United States
*
Ryan E. Carlin, Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University, United States, [email protected].
Mariana Castrellón, JSD Candidate, Stanford Law School, Stanford University, United States, [email protected].
Varun Gauri, Lecturer, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, United States, [email protected].
Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Sierra, Profesor Titular, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, [email protected].
Jeffrey K. Staton, Professor, Department of Political Science, Emory University, United States, [email protected].
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Abstract

Constitutions empower people to ask judges for binding orders directing state agents to remedy rights violations, but state agents do not always comply. Scholars propose that by making it easier to observe noncompliance, courts can leverage public pressure for compliance when it exists. Yet, exposure to information about noncompliance might lead individuals to accept high levels of noncompliance and reduce support for judicial remedies. We estimate the rate of noncompliance with judges’ orders via a rigorous tracking study of the Colombian tutela. We then embed this rate in three survey experiments fielded with online national quota samples. We show that people find the noncompliance rate in the tutela highly unacceptable regardless of a variety of mitigating factors. We also show that public reactions to this information depend on prior expectations, a finding that stresses the importance of scholarship in cognitive psychology for studies of compliance in law and politics.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 116 , Issue 1 , February 2022 , pp. 265 - 282
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Political Science Association

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