The impact of experience on how we perceive the rule of law

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• dc.contributor.author Arruñada, Benito
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-05T09:19:14Z
• dc.date.available 2024-02-05T09:19:14Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description.abstract Experience is a major source of knowledge. Could institutions be improved by eliciting the additional knowledge held by experienced individuals? I show here that in several areas of the law experienced individuals are more critical of institutional quality than inexperienced individuals. Moreover, performance indexes built with experienced subsamples substantially alter country rankings. Assuming no unmeasured confounders, more knowledge arguably leads experienced individuals to revise the more benign view held by the general population, composed mostly of inexperienced individuals. Moreover, experience is a stronger driver than alternative sources of knowledge, including education, which might therefore be reinforcing milder and, arguably, incorrect assessments of institutional quality. After observing how this “experience effect” varies systematically across countries, I conclude by proposing that evaluations of institutional quality pay greater attention to experienced individuals and cautioning against basing inferences on assessments made by the general population.
• dc.description.sponsorship This work has greatly benefitted from valuable comments and exchanges with Albert Satorra, as well as Lee J. Alston, Mircea Epure, Marco Fabbri, Dean Lueck, Ethan Michelson, Dan Rockmore, Pablo T. Spiller, Gustavo F. Torrens, John Wallis, three anonymous referees and participants at the World Justice Project’s Scholars Conference at Duke University, the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, the Quality of Governance Institute at the University of Gothenburg, the Stockholm 23rd Conference of SIOE and the University of Vigo. I am grateful to Juan Botero, Alejandro Ponce, and the WJP for providing me with data. The project received support from the Spanish Government through grant ECO2017-85763-R and the Severo Ochoa Program for Centers of Excellence in R&D (SEV-2015-0563). Usual disclaimers apply.
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• dc.identifier.citation Arruñada B. The impact of experience on how we perceive the rule of law. Journal of Institutional Economics. 2020 Jun;16(3):251-69. DOI: 10.1017/S1744137419000778
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1744137419000778
• dc.identifier.issn 1744-1374
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58946
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Institutional Economics. 2020 Jun;16(3):251-69
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/ECO2017-85763-R
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/SEV-2015-0563
• dc.rights © Cambridge University Press. The published version of the article: Arruñada B. The impact of experience on how we perceive the rule of law. Journal of Institutional Economics. 2020 Jan;16(3):251-69. DOI: 10.1017/S1744137419000778 is available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-institutional-economics.
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• dc.subject.keyword Institutions
• dc.subject.keyword Experience
• dc.subject.keyword Knowledge
• dc.subject.keyword Perception
• dc.subject.keyword Rule of law
• dc.subject.keyword Measurement
• dc.title The impact of experience on how we perceive the rule of law
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