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RegNet
Newsletter
Vol. III, No.3
December 2002
1.
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS BANNED.
2.
CONGRATULATIONS.
3.
AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL SUCCESS.
4.
RSSS REGNET OUTSIDE FUNDING PASSES $20 MILLION.
5.
CENTRE FOR GAMBLING RESEARCH UNDERWAY WITH THREE ACADEMIC
APPOINTMENTS.
6.
OTHER NEW APPOINTMENTS TO REGNET, RSSS.
7. REGNET
PROFILES.
8.
NEW REGNET BUILDING.
9.
UPCOMING REGNET EVENTS.
CHRISTMAS
HOLIDAYS BANNED
RegNet Chair John Braithwaite
has announced that there will be an annual RegNet conference
in the second week of December each year starting in
2003. 9-11 December 2003 was the likely date of the
first conference. Your newsletter correspondent asked
Braithwaite what would happen with the propensity of
Australians to go to the beach at this time of year.
“Well we would take a dim view of it”, he
replied. When pressed whether shame would be enough
to keep Australians from the beach in December, he replied
“Yes”.
The idea is that we have
an omnibus regulatory conference each year with panels
on substantive fields of RegNet research like occupational
health and safety, competition and consumer policy,
restorative justice. But the point is that it would
be a time each year when we make a special effort to
listen to the ideas developing in fields other than
our own. It would also be the best time to showcase
our cross-cutting initiatives. Suggestions for a theme
for the conference are invited. One suggestion has been:
Regulation: The Nodal and the Global.
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CONGRATULATIONS
Geoffrey Brennan and
Loren Lomasky
RegNet members Geoffrey
Brennan and Loren Lomasky, whose article "Is there
a Duty to Vote?" (SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY AND POLICY,
Winter 2000) has been awarded the Gregory Kavka/UCI
Prize in Political Philosophy for 2003 by the American
Philosophical Association. Geoff and Loren will officially
receive the Kavka Prize at the Pacific Division Meetings
in San Francisco March 26-30, 2003, where they will
also participate in a special colloquium about their
paper.
Janet Hope
RegNet PhD student in
the Law Program, RSSS Janet Hope has won a major prize
in a prestigious essay competition open to postgraduates,
researchers, academics, teachers and other higher education
professionals from all disciplines Australia-wide. The
Co-op Bookshop Dialogica Awards, presented on 14 November,
aim to encourage excellence in academic writing for
the general public on topics of community interest.
Janet received a prize of $5000, sponsored by APN Educational
Media, for her essay on complexity and risk in biotechnology.
Helene Hwayeon Shin
Centre for Tax System
Integrity PhD student Helene Hwayeon Shin is the only
person in Australia among the 38 scholars who were successful
in winning a fellowship from the Korea Foundation, one
of the biggest funds set up by the Korean Department
of Foreign Affairs to support scholars around the world
conducting research on Korea.
Marian Sawer and Terry
Hull
In the last round of
ANU Promotions Round Program Coordinator Marian Sawer
(Political Science Program) and Terry Hull, Senior Lecturer
in the Demography and Sociology Program have both been
Promoted to Professor.
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AUSTRALIAN
RESEARCH COUNCIL SUCCESS
RegNet scholars have
done particularly well in this year’s round of
ARC grants. The biggest winners were RSSS RegNet professors
Peter Grabosky and Clifford Shearing in collaboration
with ACT Chief Police Officer (and REGNET Board Member)
John Murray of the Australian Federal Police. They were
awarded an ARC linkage grant totalling $971,424. In
addition to this amount, the Australian Federal Police
(ACT Policing) will contribute $264,000 in cash over
the four year life of the project. The grant was one
of the largest awarded in the 2002 round.
This project will design
and evaluate an innovative policing strategy forthe
Australian Capital Territory. The project team, including
members of the Australian Federal Police, will conduct
an exhaustive inventory ofmechanisms for informing and
consulting the public, and for empowering communities
in the co-production of public safety. It will design
a framework using those mechanisms best suited to the
ACT, and integrate thesewith existing strategies of
restorative justice and intelligence-drivenpolicing.
The project will evaluate the impact of the new policingstrategies
on citizen satisfaction with police performance, perceptions
of public safety, and measures of crime.This will be
the first major project undertaken by the new Regnet
Research Centre called Security 21, The international
Centre for Security and Justice, co-directed by Professors
Grabosky and Shearing.
The full list of ANU
RegNet grant winners:
Peter Grabosky, Clifford
Shearing, John Murray
Policing for the 21st Century
Total: $971,424
John Quiggin
Risk and Australian public policy
Total: $893,950
Bruce Chapman, Robert
Breunig, Tom Crossley, Bob Gregory, Don Kenyon, Chris
Ryan
Literacy and Numeracy,
Schooling, Neighbourhoods and Labour Market Success
Total: $260,000
Barry Hindess, Peter
Larmour
Transparency International and the Problem of Corruption
Total: $223,000
John Dryzek, Bob Goodin
The Theory and Practice of Deliberative Democracy
Total: $214,000
John Braithwaite,
Christine Parker, Colin Scott, Niki Lacey
Meta-Regulation and the Regulation of Law
Total: $183,000.
Richard Johnstone,
Michael Quinlan
The Implementation of Process regulation in Occupational
Health and Safety: A Comparative Study of Policy and
Practice
Total: $163,000
Chris Reus-Smit
Human Rights and the Transformation of Worlsd Politics
Total: $173,000
Nicola Piper
Asian Women, Migration and Transnational Governance
from Below
Total: $117, 000
Andrew Hopkins
From Compliance to Mindfulness
Total: $77,899
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RSSS
REGNET OUTSIDE FUNDING PASSES $20 MILLION
The 2002 ARC successes
take outside fundraising by scholars with RegNet-funded
appointments in RSSS to $21.1. million since 2001 when
the ANU Institute of Advanced Studies Planning Committee
first granted RSSS $500,000 per annum to seed RegNet
posts.
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CENTRE
FOR GAMBLING RESEARCH UNDER WAY WITH THREE
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Peter Grabosky has accepted
an appointment as ANU’s first Professor for Gambling
Research. This post is funded by an endowment from the
ACT government. From April 2003, Professor Jan McMillen
of the University of Western Sydney has accepted an
offer to join Peter in the Centre and will take over
the Directorship of the Centre at that time. David Marshall
will also be joining the Centre as a postdoctoral fellow
early 2003. See future issues of the newsletter for
stories on the work of these scholars.
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OTHER
NEW APPOINTMENTS TO REGNET, RSSS
Paul Ainsworth,
Research Fellow, Centre for Competition and Consumer
Policy. Paul was a research and policy analyst on community
renewal in the Queensland Department of Housing prior
to his arrival in September 2002.
Robyn Bartel,
Postdoctoral Fellow in environmental regulation. Joining
RegNet in January 2003 after submitting her University
of Melbourne PhD in engineering. Robyn is also an ANU
university medallist with science and law degrees.
Michael Dowdle,
Fellow in comparative constitutionalism. Joining RegNet
in January 2003 from Columbia University and the Council
for Foreign Relations.
David Levi-Faur,
Senior Fellow in the Centre for Competition and Consumer
Policy. Joining RegNet in mid-2003 from the Center for
Regulation and Competition, University of Manchester.
Monique Marks,
Research Fellow in Security 21 will arrive in early
2003 from the University of Natal, South Africa.
Jill Murray, Research
Fellow in labour regulation from early 2003 arriving
from the University of Melbourne.
Christine Parker,
Fellow, Centre for Competition and Consumer Policy,
will have a shared appointment with the University of
Melbourne during 2003 and will continue to work with
the Centre from Melbourne beyond 2003.
Helen Watchirs has
had her 1 year postdoc on ADIS audit, supported jointly
by the AIDS trust and RegNet, extended to a second year.
Jennifer Wood,
Research Fellow in Security 21. Has already been visiting
with us for much of 2002 and will arrive in late 2003
from the University of Toronto this time into a salaried
RegNet appointment.
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REGNET
PROFILES
Andrew Hopkins
Andrew has been working
in recent years on disasters such as train crashes,
coal mine explosions and fires in petro-chemical plants.
He has written about both their causes and the regulatory
techniques available for preventing them. His study
of the way in which a "culture of denial"
contributed to the Moura coal mine explosion has been
widely read in the Australian mining industry and has
influenced overseas thinking about the causes of accidents.He
gave evidence about the organisational and regulatory
causes of major accidents at the Royal Commission into
the explosion at Esso's gas plant at Longford near Melbourne,
and his work on this accident has impacted on the petroleum
industry around the world.
He has developed a layered causal model which identifies
individual, organisational, regulatory and societal
level factors contributing to major accidents. He applied
the model in his study of Longford, and more recently
he was invited onto an Air Force Board to apply this
style of analysis in an inquiry into the exposure of
F111 maintenance workers to toxic chemicals.He has written
about the regulation of major hazards in various industries
and participated in policy development for the regulation
of safety in the offshore petroleum industry.
Jenny Job
Responsive regulation
and its application to the Australian Taxation Office
(ATO) has been my focus since 1997. I was instrumental
at this time in developing the ATO Compliance Model,
synthesising John Braithwaite’s work on responsive
regulation and Valerie Braithwaite’s work on motivational
postures and values. The ATO Compliance Model has now
been incorporated into the ATO’s strategic administration
plan.
She was part of the team
to implement the model in the ATO, assisting with the
training of more than 3000 ATO staff in the application
of the Compliance Model. In February 2002, AusAID funded
my participation in the training of senior East Timorese
taxation officers in responsive regulation. The East
Timorese officers support the principles of responsive
regulation, but with adaptation for cultural difference.
Evaluating the implementation
of responsive regulation in the ATO has also been part
of my focus. I conducted semi-structured telephone interviews
with ATO officers to explore early experiences with
responsive regulation. I also worked with Professor
Neal Shover, University of Tennessee, to evaluate the
trial of responsive regulation in the ATO. With a focus
on the Building and Construction industry, we conducted
face-to-face interviews with the ATO staff involved
in this cash economy project, and with the owners of
small firms in the building and construction industry.
These evaluations were of major interest at the early
stage of implementing the Compliance Model and at a
time when there were organisational and cultural changes
in the ATO.
Responsive regulation
is also a theme in my PhD studies. On the basis of a
survey of 837 people from NSW and Victoria, I am exploring
the concept of social capital, and in particular trust
in institutions, and the influence on law abidingness.
The results of this study will provide important directions
for regulatory administration work.
Nicola Lacey
Nicola’s contributions
to RegNet’s research field fall into two related
areas: criminal law/criminal justice scholarship and
socio-legal theory. In the former, I have co-written
(with Celia Wells) the main socio-legal textbook in
the UK: Reconstructing Criminal Law conceptualises criminal
law as a field of public regulation which has to be
understood in the context both of the special –
legal and administrative – institutions through
which it is created, interpreted and enforced and of
the broad social environment in which it develops and
operates. The book has been adopted as the main text
in almost all the UK law schools which take a socio-legal
approach to the subject. Its distinctive contribution
is to enable the study of criminal law from a regulatory
perspective while not losing sight of the specificities
of legal doctrine. In this book and in a number of articles,
I have developed the concept of ‘criminalisation’
as the most useful object of analysis.
My contributions in the
field of socio-legal theory have been devoted to analysing
– often from a feminist perspective – the
regulatory and meta-regulatory potential of legal rules,
institutions and practices, and to identifying the links
between conceptual analysis on the one hand and socio-historical
analysis on the other. My current research on the historical
development of conceptions of responsibility in criminal
law effectively combines these two sets of interests.
In this project, I aim to shed light on the shifting
relations between competing (formal and informal, legal
and extra-legal) regulatory regimes, and to provide
an understanding of the conditions of existence –
cultural, political, intellectual and institutional
– of particular meta-regulatory regimes.
Nicola Piper
Nicola is a Research
Fellow within RegNet in RSSS. Her Ph.D. in Sociology
is from the University of Sheffield, U.K, and her previous
research appointment was with the Nordic Institute of
Asian Studies in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has held visiting
appointments at Kansai University in Osaka and ADFA
in Canberra. Her research interests revolve around issues
related to international labour migration, particularly
labour/human rights, citizenship and gender. The geographical
focus of her work is Europe and Asia. She has written
Racism, Nationalism, and Citizenship - Ethnic Minorities
in Britain and Germany (Ashgate 1998) and is co-editor
of Women and Work in Globalising Asia (Routledge 2002).
The project she is currently working on is about transnational
advocacy networks on behalf of female labour migrants
and human rights in Southeast and East Asia.
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NEW
REGNET BUILDING
Finally RegNet will be
assembled in one building by February 2004 or perhaps
earlier when a new building goes up in the carpark between
the Coombs Building and University House. RegNet, the
Law Program and the Centre for Tax System Integrity,
RSSS will occupy the top two floors of the building
(60 offices plus meeting spaces). The bottom floor will
be teaching space mainly used by the Research School
of Pacific and Asian Studies. Ideas for naming the building
are still being considered and are welcomed – but
remember it is a jointly occupied building with Pacific
and Asian Studies.
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UPCOMING
REGNET EVENTS
Tuesday 4 February, 11:00am
– 6:00pm
Wednesday 5 February, 9:00am – 4.30pm
‘The National
OHS Regulatory Research Consortium’
Innovations Building
Eggleston Road
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Thursday 6 February,
9am – 5pm
'Auditing in Perspective’
Innovations Building
Eggleston Roa
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
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