Fredrik Jrgensen and Jan Svanberg,
Stockholm: Legal Self-efficacy and ManagersŐ Use of Law
Abstract: This
study demonstrates that legal effectiveness may depend on how an individual
perceives him/herself as a competent user of law. The hypotheses tested in this
study are that the self-perceptions of people may be more important for legal
effectiveness than are the objective factors such as law enforcement agencies
and the effectiveness of commercial legislation. The effectiveness concept was
tested on survey data collected from 246 managers in Northwest Russia. The
result is that the subjective self-perceptions are a stronger determinant of
the use of law than is the perceived institutional efficiency. Persons were to
a lesser degree adopting law as an instrument conditioned on their calculation
of the efficiency of courts and other institutions, but to a greater degree
adopting law as a form of communication conditioned on their feeling of
assuredness about their ability to communicate with legal terminology.
Therefore there is a latent potential for improvement of legal effectiveness in
the enhancement of how individuals perceive themselves as knowledgeable users
of law.
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