Tom R. Tyler
Autor(a) de Why People Obey the Law
About the Author
Tom R. Tyler is the Macklin Fleming Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School.
Obras por Tom R. Tyler
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1950-03-03
- Sexo
- male
Membros
Críticas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Membros
- 83
- Popularidade
- #218,811
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 29
- Línguas
- 2
This is a small academic contribution which is of absolutely no interest to people who don't work in this field of social science. The author tries to put numbers on earlier theories of how ordinary people view legitimacy, but he does not offer any new perspectives on why people obey the law. In fact, even his final conclusions on the results of his "Chicago study" are stated in such vapid language that you might miss them if you're not playing close attention. Which, on the other hand, wouldn't be a very big loss, since they're not going to tell you anything that you didn't already intuitively know.
It's amazing that someone at Princeton University Press actually considered it worthwhile to republish this 24-year old study in 2006. In an amusing Afterword section, the author throws in another 100 references to more recent literature, most of which are his own publications. I can't imagine that anyone would find that useful or interesting. Unfortunately I was fooled into buying this book by its title, which gives the impression of a general discussion of legitimacy. Be warned that this book contains nothing of that sort.… (mais)