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This reminds me of a great study about the relationship between cultural and legal norms in looking at corruption. Because of the UN, nearly every country has
by dworin 13y ago
This reminds me of a great study about the relationship between cultural and legal norms in looking at corruption. Because of the UN, nearly every country has a diplomat in New York, and because of diplomatic immunity, none of them are responsible for their parking tickets. So you effectively had to rely on their own cultural norms about how to behave with your car, rather than legal enforcement. They found that there was a strong correlation between the number of parking tickets issued to diplomats from a country and independent measures of corruption in that country, showing that the norms really were an important part, and carried over even into a different environment.
You can find the whole paper here: http://www.nber.org/papers/w12312 http://www.nber.org/papers/w12312
- byoung2 13y agothere was a strong correlation between the number of parking tickets issued to diplomats from a country and independent measures of corruption in that country, showing that the norms really were an important part, and carried over even into a different environment. That makes sense, in the same way that you'll find that Americans tend to tip even in countries where tipping is not customary. The real question is how did those cultural norms start in the first place?
- twic 13y agoSo what does it say that US diplomats have the most unpaid congestion charge in London? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23266149 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23266149
- ArbitraryLimits 13y agoSince the article only quotes total amounts owed (US diplomats owing 7.2 million out of a total of 67 million), it probably just says the US sends more diplomats to the UK than most other countries.