Toward a Theory of Compliance in State-Regulated Livelihoods: A Comparative Study of Compliance Motivations in Developed and Developing World Fisheries
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This paper addresses the question of how states can best promote citizens’ compliance with laws that regulate livelihoods. Based on ethnographic data from fishing communities in three countries – Norway, Canada, and South Africa – the paper compares compliance motivations that exist under different socio-economic and political conditions. The comparisons gave rise to a typology of three compliance motivations: deterrence, moral support for the law’s content, and the legislator’s authority. This paper then identifies three governable preconditions – enforcement, empowerment of citizens, and civic identity – that respectively explain these motivations. The paper argues that the compliance discourse in a given type of state must be framed such that it includes at least the governable preconditions for compliance that have not been met in that state. Consequently, a functional compliance strategy would vary between different state types. The paper thus questions the transferability of the developed world’s compliance discourses to the developing world.