Presentation Law and Society Conference - Minneapolis (2014)

8/11/2019 Presentation Law and Society Conference - Minneapolis (2014)

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Commitment, Resistance,

Disengagement en Game-Playing:

Understanding (non-) compliance with the smoking

ban in Dutch bars

Willem BantemaUniversity of Groningen

([email protected])


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Compliance with the smoking ban in bars


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Background smoking ban in bars

Introduced: July 2008

Enforced by the NVWA agency

Bar owners can be fined, clients are not


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Outline

1. Central argument: motivational postures

2. Study design

3. 5 postures and empirical results4. Postures and self-reported compliance

5. Conclusion


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Motivational postures

- Valerie Braithwaite (1994; 1995; 2003; 2009; 2011)

- What are postures?

- Social distance


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Study design

Surveys (completed: N=400)

- Self-reported compliance (scale)- Motivational postures (scales)

In-depth interviews (N=23)


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Commitment

47 %


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Capitulation

5 %


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Resistance

23 %
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Disengagement

5 %
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Game-Playing

Df

20 %


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Summary

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Commitment Capitulation Resistance Disengagement Game Playing

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Postures of bar owners (%) : N=356


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Postures and self-reported

compliance

Variable Commitment Capitulation Resistance Disengagement Game-Playing

.46 ** .01 -.11 ** -.23 ** -.33 **

Size (larger) .11 .15 ** .12 ** .10 ** .10 **

Ventilation (yes) -.14 ** -.23 ** -.25 ** -.23 ** -.21 **

Point at customers (easy) .21 ** .31 ** .28 ** .27 ** .24 **

Smoker -.08 * -.11 ** -.09 * -.08 * -.03

Ex-smoker .00 -.03 -.01 -.01 -.02

Economic impact (higher) -.01 -.09 * -.09 * -.08 * -.05

Detterence (higher) -.02 -.12 ** -.14 ** -.15 ** -.11 **

Adjusted R (model 1) .50 .38 .37 .41 .43

* p


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Postures and self-reported

compliance

Variable Commitment Capitulation Resistance Disengagement Game-Playing

.46 ** .01 -.11 ** -.23 ** -.33 **


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Conclusion

Postures can explain differences in (non-)

compliance

Regulator or regulation?

The role of legitimacy?


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Self-reported compliance

If the weather is bad, I permit smoking in my

establishment or smoking inside this

establishment is permitted after midnight

This establishment complies with the smoking

ban


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Items - Commitment (=.82)

Complying with the smoking ban is the right thing to do

Its my responsibility to ensure that people dont smoke in my

bar

I feel a moral obligation to comply with the smoking ban

Complying with the smoking ban is a responsibility thatshould be willingly accepted by all bars


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Items - Capitulation (=.73)

If you cooperate with the NVWA, they are likely to becooperative to you

The NVWA is encouraging to those who have difficulty

meeting their obligations through no fault of their own

Even if the NVWA finds that I am doing something wrong,they will respect me in the long run as long as I admit my

mistakes

No matter how cooperative or uncooperative the NVWA is,the best policy is to always be cooperative with them


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Items - Resistance (=.64)

Once the NVWA has branded you as non-compliant, they will neverchange their mind

The NVWA is more interested in catching you for doing the wrongthing, than helping you do the right thing

Its important not to let the NVWA push you around

Bars have to take a stand against the NVWA

Im dissatisfied with the practice of the NVWA


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Items - Disengagement (=.73)

I dont care if the NVWA thinks that I am not doing the right

thing

I personally dont think that there is much the NVWA can do

to make me comply with the smoking ban, if I dont want to

I dont really know what the NVWA expects of me and Im not

about to ask

I dont care what the NVWA thinks of me


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Items - Game-Playing (=.72)

I enjoy talking to fellow bar-owners about loopholes in the

smoking ban regulations

I enjoy spending time to work out how changes in the

smoking ban (regulation) will affect me

I enjoy the game of finding ways to evade the smoking ban

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