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Psychological dimensions of access to justice : an empirical study and typology of disputing styles / Access to justice and psychology

Many factors have been hypothesized to account for the fact that certain disputes become legal claims while others fail to escalate. This thesis argues that psychological factors play a major role in disputants' decisions to resort to the court system, and that a person's propensity to do so is a function of his/her attitudes toward State institutions and his/her personal disputing style. / This thesis is based on an empirical study exploring the existence of such disputing styles in the context of landlord-tenant relationships. Accounts of reallife disputes were gathered through interviews with tenants having recently faced problems with their landlords; four personality tests were also administered to the participants. / In this thesis, qualitative descriptions of 37 individual cases are used in order to build a typology of disputing styles. A statistical analysis of the role played by four personality traits in this typology is then undertaken.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.20303
Date January 1997
CreatorsPaquin, Julie.
ContributorsMacdonald, R. A. (advisor)
PublisherMcGill University
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
Formatapplication/pdf
CoverageMaster of Laws (Institute of Comparative Law.)
RightsAll items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.
Relationalephsysno: 001652121, proquestno: MQ50956, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest.

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