Fear, Duty, and Regulatory Compliance: Professor Emeritus Robert A. Kagan at ANU
Channel: ANU TV
Date: 15/10/2012

Professor Emeritus Robert A. Kagan, University of California, Berkeley gives this talk entitled .'Fear, Duty, and Regulatory Compliance' at The Australian National University. This talk is part of the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) seminar series

News headlines repeatedly provide us examples of terrible accidents, injuries, economic losses, and environmental harms caused by the failure of regulated business entities to comply with government regulations. At the same time, social science research indicates that regulatory compliance is common, indeed quite prevalent -which raises the puzzle explored in this lecture: Why do regulated business firms sometimes comply with government regulations, or fail to comply, or "overcomply" -- that is, do more than the regulations require? Addressing those questions, Professor Kagan discusses the lessons of three research projects he conducted with Professor Neil Gunningham of ANU and Dr Dorothy Thornton of UC Berkeley. 

Robert A. Kagan began teaching political science at UC Berkeley in 1974, and in 1988 he also became a member of the Boalt Hall faculty. From 1993 to 2004, with an interval in 2001, he was Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Society. He has been a visiting scholar at Oxford University, Ohio State University, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Russell Sage Foundation, and the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences. Kagan was appointed to the Emanuel S. Heller Chair in 2006.