Individual Conduct and Social Norms: A Utilitarian Account of Social Union and the Rule of Law

1976 ◽  
Vol 73 (14) ◽  
pp. 486-490
Author(s):  
Conrad D. Johnson ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-232
Author(s):  
O.O. Thompson ◽  
A.S. Afolabi ◽  
A.N. Raheem ◽  
C.A. Onifade

Corruption is a global phenomenon. Many states have embarked on several crusades to fight the menace, with little to show for these efforts. Using a critical analysis ofliterature, media reports and press releases, this articleassesses the anti-corruption crusade of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, 2015-2019. The article argues that in spite of the strategies and panoply of laws employed by the administration to tackle the menace, the crusade has to a large extent failed because the crusade is waged along ethnic and particularly party lines. The article recommends among other things the need for transparency in the crusade, building institutions, revival of social norms, political will, and respect of the rule of law.


1976 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 466
Author(s):  
Leon W. Ellsworth ◽  
Michael E. Feld ◽  
Rolf E. Sartorius

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-12
Author(s):  
Richard Sherlock

Public Goods can be seen as one important way in which societies sustain themselves over time. These are part of the puzzle of the development of political order. Public goods like the rule of law are non-substractable and non-excludable. For economists the classic textbook examples are national defense and police protection. In this paper I argue that religiosity can function like police protection, a means of sustaining order through fear of punishment from a transcendent source. As a means of reducing defection from social norms it has a role to play as a public good. But religion cannot at the same time be seen as the source of such norms or dissention will undermine the very order that punishment seems to reinforce.


Il Politico ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 252 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Jakee ◽  
Stephen Jones-Young

Nell’intento di costruiremodelli di “Stati falliti” molti studiosi di relazioniinternazionali e di sviluppo concentranol’attenzione sulle istituzioni formaliche, ad avviso degli autori, possono essereconsiderate sinonimi di “rule of law”. Gli autoriritengono invece che gli Stati falliti – ein modo particolare la loro durata – non possonoessere compresi se non si prendono inconsiderazione le regole sociali informalisulle quali la “rule of law” si basa. Nel saggiotali regole, quando si tratti di Stati falliti,vengono trattate ipotizzando che non esistaalcuna norma che imponga di conformarsialla legge: in particolare si ritiene che i leaderpolitici, i ministri, i funzionari e i cittadinidegli Stati falliti siano privi di normesociali generali che li sollecitino a conformarsialla legge. In assenza di tali norme, ledinamiche socio-politiche producono inettitudine,autocrazie, burocrazie inefficienti epredatorie, abitudine diffusa alla violenza, einfine povertà. Il saggio si propone di spiegareil motivo per cui, nonostante i tanti interventi,il fenomeno degli Stati falliti siatanto persistente: all’origine di esso, infatti,stanno fenomeni sociali profondi, che nesono la causa e non la conseguenza.


IEE Review ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Clifford Gray
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