It takes a village to build illegality: Minorities' noncompliance as manifestation of distrust

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gofen, Anat; Cohen-Blankshtain, Galit; Ibraheem, Maram
• 署名单位: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/gove.12528
• 发表日期: 2021
• 关键词: descriptive representation; procedural justice; ethnic-minorities; ENFORCEMENT; police; motivations; PERSPECTIVE; legitimacy; deterrence; GOVERNMENT

摘要

Often portrayed as social resistance fueled by authorities' discrimination and legal racism, minorities' noncompliance is considered to undermine the current order and commonly ascribed to distrust in government. To better understand noncompliance as a manifestation of distrust, this article focuses on the well-documented violation of planning, building, and property laws among the Israeli-Arab minority, who consistently exemplify distrust in government. Differing from current research, our analysis explores what facilitates noncompliance on-the-ground, draws on face-to-face interviews with 30 Arab-Israeli offenders who built their houses illegally, and uses the noncompliant behavior as the unit of analysis. In contrast to the common idiosyncratic portrayal of noncompliance, illegal building emerged as depending on a threefoldcollectiveeffort: institutional, social, and practical. Uncovering collective support mechanisms for noncompliance suggests that distrust in government is compensated by trust in informal arrangements, thus raising new dilemmas around where personal responsibilities end and public ones begin.