The Law of Good People: Challenging States’ Ability to Regulate Human Behaviour 🔗

Introduction

The dominant paradigm of scholars in current legal theory is based on the need to assume that states are dealing with "bad people" who are pursuing their own self-interest. Behavioural ethics studies the automatic cognitive processes that direct self-interest and "moral blind spots", biases that allow people to bend the laws within the confines of their conscience. The advancement of behavioural ethics in the management literature and its collision with the traditional outlook requires a broad theoretical and empirical comparison of both traditional enforcement mechanisms and non-traditional measures to understand how states could deal with misdeeds often committed by normative citizens blinded by cognitive biases regarding their own ethicality. In contrast to behavioural economics, which focused on cognitive biases in making financial decisions, behavioural ethics, based on people's preferences in making ethical decisions, has been mostly ignored. The proposed training bridges the gap between the new findings of the behavioural approach to law and the existing methods used to modify behaviour. The book's main argument is that the unique insights of Behavioral Ethics into the cognitive and motivational aspects of the behaviour of "good people" require the development of new and innovative approaches to the normative treatment of a diverse population consisting of both good and bad people. Are you ready to explore various tools that policymakers can adopt to modify behaviour?