Community Rule-Making in the Pacific Islands as Regulatory Innovation

我们的研究调查了太平洋岛国普遍存在的“社区规则制定”现象，即当地社区参与旨在发展新的规范秩序的审议过程。这种进程主要发生在国家批准的权力范围之外，可解决基于性别的暴力、犯罪和贫困等社会问题，并经常发生在其他地方推动的社区复兴努力的背景下。通过在巴布亚新几内亚、所罗门群岛和萨摩亚的合作实证研究，我们的项目将建立一个证据基础，以更好地了解社区规则制定的潜力和危险，并开发“响应性杂交”作为一种新的分析框架来对其进行理论分析。

Our study investigates the widespread phenomena of ‘community rule-making’ in Pacific Island countries, in which local communities engage in deliberative processes oriented towards development of new normative orders. Occurring largely outside of state-sanctioned authority, such processes may address social problems such as gender based violence, crime and poverty, and frequently occur in the context of other locally-driven attempts at community regeneration. Through collaborative empirical research in PNG, Solomon Islands and Samoa, our project will build an evidence base to better understand the potential and the dangers of community rule-making, and develop ‘responsive hybridisation’ as a new analytical framework to theorise about it.