Principles or Rules-based Regulation in the Face of Uncertainty – Does it Really Matter?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4335/15.3.459-478(2017)Keywords:
regulation, complexity, principle-based approach, evaluation elements, weightsAbstract
The public administrations prepare draft laws. New things always emerge that cannot be in advance framed in laws. One solution could be the principle-based approach on the local and national level that gives the most relevant principles-rules combinations in the face of complexity. The paper presents the ability to measure principles and rules: it establishes the “1:47 rule” or ratio between the principles and rules, and gives a model that embraces the principles-rules evaluation elements and their weights. By this method, decision-makers and norms' addresses could achieve decisions without the need for more and more detailed, but ineffective regulations.
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Parisi, F., & Fon, V. (2008) The Economics of Lawmaking (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
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Raitio, J. (2003) The Principle of Legal Certainty in EC Law (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers).
Sally, D. (1995) Conversation and Cooperation in Social Dilemmas A Meta-Analysis of Experiments from 1958 to 1992, Rationality and Society, 7(1), pp. 58–92.
Schoemaker, P. J. H., & Russo, E. J. (1994) A Pyramid of Decision Approaches, In: Ríos, S. (ed.) Decision Theory and Decision Analysis: Trends and Challenges (Boston: Springer Science & Business Media), pp. 53-78.
Schwartz, A. & Scott, R. (1995) The Political Economy of Private Legislatures, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 143, pp. 595–654.
Schwarze, J. (2013) Sources of European Administrative Law, In: Martin, S. (ed.) The Construction of Europe: Essays in Honour of Emile Noël (Dordrecht: Springer Science & Business Media).
Simon, H. A. (1997) Administrative Behavior, 4th Edition (4 Sub edition) (New York: Free Press).
Slovic, P. (1987) Perception of Risk, Science, 236(4799), pp. 280–285.
Taleb, N. N. (2010) The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility (New York: Random House Publishing Group).
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Xenitidou, M. & Edmonds, B. (eds.) (2014) The Complexity of Social Norms (Heidelberg; New York: Springer).
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