Disobedient Institutional Behavior: How We Break, Evade, or Violate Rules

Abstract

The paper aims to explain different cases of disobedient institutionalbehavior using the attitude-based model. The issue of how to analyze andcapture the faces of disobedience in a simple model is approached in threesteps: first, misbehavior is defined as a certain lack in normative attitudes;second, these attitudes are distinguished in terms of normative acceptanceand normative guidance; and third, combinations of these attitudes representbasic types of disobedience:opposing, transgressingandconforming.These threecategories constitute an analytical typology of disobedient agents compatiblewith the theory of social institutions.