Table 1 Levels as action situations where legal acts are performed upon power-conferring-rules
Levels as action situations where legal acts are performed upon power-conferring-rules | ||
|---|---|---|
Level of action situation | Interaction | Rules structuring the AS (for interaction) |
Operational situation (OS) | Performance of factual activities, e.g.: | OS-RiUs following RoCs with ‘deeper origin’ (CCS) involving prohibitions, commands, permissions and dispensations (and freedoms) |
• establish smart grid | ||
• manage a neighbourhood cooperative | ||
Outcomes of CCS | ⬆CCS-made RoCs for OS use⬆ | |
Collective choice situation (CCS) | Introducing, altering, terminating (only) RoCs, e.g.: | CCS-RiUs following CS-made RoPs (with positions and conditions) about: |
• contracting between OS participants (first party regulation) | • how to make/change RoCs at CCS, for OS-RiUs | |
• permitting/subsidizing by non-OS-participants (second party) | ||
• co-regulating formal or substantive standards for OS interactions | ||
Outcomes of CS | ⬆ CS-made RoPs for CCS use ⬆ | |
Constitutional situations (CS) | Making, altering, terminating RiF, e.g.: | CS-RiUs following MS-made RoPs (with positions and conditions) about how to make/change RoPs at CS, for RiUs at CCS |
• (RoP for CCS) Civil Law Code; Electricity act; | ||
• (RoP for CCS) as meta-regulation for private rules on products/services | ||
Outcomes of MS | ⬆ MS-made CS-RoPs ⬆ | |
Metaconstitutional situations (MS) | Making, altering, terminating RiF, e.g. | MS-RiU following RoR when to make RiF |
• constitutions and bills of rights | ||
• conventions, custom | ||