The Costs of Achieving Compliance

这项研究活动由妇女研究机会计划资助项目支持。这项研究是在政治科学、法律和社会科学的交叉点上进行的，因为它涉及对公共政策遵守情况的调查。对公共政策遵从性的调查可以对政府与被统治者之间的关系进行理论和实证分析。该基金允许研究者计划一项研究调查，以完善一套合规理论，并在不同国家的不同政策环境中检验该理论。计划阶段的最初部分涉及对美国福利欺诈的初步评估，计划阶段的第二部分涉及制定正式的研究建议。初步研究将使研究者能够建立为后续调查选择方案和国家的标准。这一阶段还将使研究者能够为更大的研究活动制定研究设计。

This research activity is supported under the Research Opportunities for Women - -Planning Grants Program. The research is at the interstices of political science and law and social sciences as it is concerned with an investigation of compliance to public policies. An investigation of compliance to public policies permits both theoretical and empirical analyses of the relationship between government and the governed. The grant allows the investigator to plan for a research investigation to refine a theory of compliance and to test the theory in different policy settings in different countries. The initial part of the planning stage involves a preliminary assessment of welfare fraud in the United States and the second part of the planning stage involves the development of a formal research proposal. The preliminary study will enable the investigator to establish the criteria for selecting programs and countries for the subsequent investigation. This phase will also enable the investigator to develop a research design for the larger research acitivity.