Mutual Expectations: A Conventionalist Theory of Law

by Govert A. den Hartog and Govert Hartogh

The law persists because people have reasons to comply with its rules. What characterizes those reasons is their interdependence: each of us only has a reason to comply because he or she expects the others to comply for the same reasons. The rules may help us to solve coordination problems, but the interaction patterns regulated by them also include Prisoner's Dilemma games, Division problems and Assurance problems. In these "games" the rules can...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9041117962
• ISBN13: 9789041117960
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.6"