Relationships Between Laws, Norms and Practices

Cycling: Bringing the future into the present

“…Studies have been undertaken by market researchers and social scientists into community responses to particular cycling-related laws, such as the Queensland Government's trial of the legislative amendment to specify a minimum distance when drivers overtake cyclists in 2014 (Queensland Government, 2014) 2 . Australasian law academics (for example, Butler, 2008) have examined the relationship between the law, the production of norms, and road users/road space; but only Dent (2012) explicitly includes cyclists in his study. In Chapter Seventeen of this book, 'Cycling and Australian law', Margaret Grant, a legal practitioner, opens another front in the conversation on cycling and the law.…”

A Regulatory Perspective on the Interests and Motivators of Creative Individuals

“…iv A number of these factors will be the individual's conscious assessment of her or his own interests; other factors will be the interests of others -including the interests of their family, their colleagues, their employer and even of those not actually connected to them. Many of these factors will be consciously, or unconsciously, acknowledged norms of behaviour that have been internalised of the course of the individual's life (see, for example, Dent, 2012). It is these norms that guide an individual's calculation in a given set of circumstances.…”