Enforcement Process Tracing: Forbearance and Dilution in Urban Colombia and Turkey
Cities are complex regulatory environments. Attempts to regulate urban behavior create opportunities for politicians to manipulate enforcement to win votes and reward supporters. While some politicians choose not to enforce regulations, or forbearance, others undercut their intent, or dilution. Empi...
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| author | Bozçağa, Tuğba Holland, Alisha C. |
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| description | Cities are complex regulatory environments. Attempts to regulate urban behavior create opportunities for politicians to manipulate enforcement to win votes and reward supporters. While some politicians choose not to enforce regulations, or forbearance, others undercut their intent, or dilution. Empirical research on enforcement has lagged behind due to the identification challenges in distinguishing weak state capacity from political manipulations. We develop a structured approach to process tracing that follows enforcement decisions sequentially across bureaucracies and specifies statistical distributions as counterfactuals to identify the causes of limited enforcement. We illustrate these strategies through original data on enforcement against squatters in urban Colombia and the provision of building permits in urban Turkey. Enforcement process tracing helps to document a form of distributive politics that is common to cities in the developing world. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1285072022-09-30T17:24:16Z Enforcement Process Tracing: Forbearance and Dilution in Urban Colombia and Turkey Bozçağa, Tuğba Holland, Alisha C. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science Cities are complex regulatory environments. Attempts to regulate urban behavior create opportunities for politicians to manipulate enforcement to win votes and reward supporters. While some politicians choose not to enforce regulations, or forbearance, others undercut their intent, or dilution. Empirical research on enforcement has lagged behind due to the identification challenges in distinguishing weak state capacity from political manipulations. We develop a structured approach to process tracing that follows enforcement decisions sequentially across bureaucracies and specifies statistical distributions as counterfactuals to identify the causes of limited enforcement. We illustrate these strategies through original data on enforcement against squatters in urban Colombia and the provision of building permits in urban Turkey. Enforcement process tracing helps to document a form of distributive politics that is common to cities in the developing world. 2020-11-17T20:47:25Z 2020-11-17T20:47:25Z 2018-08 2020-09-24T21:45:03Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0039-3606 1936-6167 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128507 Bozçağa,Tuğba and Alisha C. Holland. "Enforcement Process Tracing: Forbearance and Dilution in Urban Colombia and Turkey." Studies in Comparative International Development 53, 3 (August 2018): 300–323. © 2018 Springer Science Business Media, LLC en https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-018-9274-1 Studies in Comparative International Development Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature application/pdf Springer Science and Business Media LLC Springer US |
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| title_short | Enforcement Process Tracing: Forbearance and Dilution in Urban Colombia and Turkey |
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