Two central puzzles about social norms are now they are enforced and how they are created or modified. The sanctions for the violation of a norm can be categorized as automatic, guilt, shame, informational, bilateral-costly, and multilateral-costly. Problems in creating and modifying norms are related to which sanctions are employed. We use our analysis of enforcement and creation of norms to analyze the scope of feasible government action either to promote desirable norms or to repress undesirable ones.
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Paper provided by Indiana - Center for Econometric Model Research in its series Papers with number
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Length: 18 pages Date of creation: 1998 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:fth:indian:98-005
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