Order without Law

Ellickson, R. C. (1991). Order without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes. Harvard University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1991

Link

https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674036437matched

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economics_finance, sociology_anthropology

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Informal Enforcement
  • Informal enforcement is the structural pattern in which compliance with a rule, norm, or expectation is sustained not by a designated authority wielding codified sanctions, but by the diffuse, decentralized reactions of many ordinary participants — disapproval, gossip, reputational downgrading, exclusion, withheld cooperation, or retaliation.

    This sourceFoundational account showing that order is sustained largely by informal social norms enforced through diffuse self-help and reaction rather than by formal law; supports the core claim that enforcement is a function carried by a population, recurring across many social settings.

• Shadow Of The Future
  • The same logic governs network reputation systems and tit-for-tat protocol design, long-tenure workplace and small-town relationships, norms of judicial restraint sustained by expected role-reversal, and online communities with persistent identity and slow turnover.

    This sourceDocuments how members of close-knit, long-tenure communities (Shasta County ranchers) sustain cooperation through informal norms and reputational sanctions rather than law — the shadow-of-the-future mechanism in long-horizon, observable community relationships.

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