@article{ref1,
title="Policy design, social regulation, and theory building: lessons from the traffic safety policy arena",
journal="Political research quarterly",
year="1993",
author="Durant, Robert F. and Legge, Jerome S.",
volume="46",
number="3",
pages="641-656",
abstract="Despite the interest of political scientists in social regulatory policy implementation, only recently has the policy design movement begun classifying and assessing the comparative advantage of various policy &quot;tools&quot; or implements. This study seeks to advance understanding of social regulatory policy tools by assessing their potential as a vehicle for developing midrange theories of policy design. Analysis of Michigan traffic safety data indicates that those pursuing policy design research should anticipate that: (1) enforcement effects vary across regulatory tools; (2) attributes such as &quot;birth order&quot; and &quot;precision of targeting&quot; can condition the impact of various types of social regulatory tools differently; (3) success is conditioned not only by implement attributes, but also by implementation styles, contexts, and target populations; and (4) the comparative advantage of any tool can be assessed accurately only by considering its interaction with other implements across these disparate styles, contexts, and target populations.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1065-9129",
doi="10.1177/106591299304600310",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/106591299304600310"
}