@article{Larcom:295856,
      recid = {295856},
      author = {Larcom, Shaun and Swanson, Timothy M},
      title = {Documenting legal dissonance legal pluralism in Papua New  Guinea},
      address = {2015},
      number = {ARTICLE},
      abstract = {We examine the problem suggested by the troubled history  of legal transplants, the instance of legal pluralism in  which an existing territory has a new legal system overlaid  on the previously existing customary system. We provide a  very simple model for considering the interaction between  legal regimes that exist contemporaneously within a single  jurisdiction. We demonstrate that, even when the  fundamental relationship between such regimes is as  substitutes for one another, the existence of negative  externalities between enforcement technologies can result  in the withdrawal of enforcement efforts. We term this  phenomenon legal dissonance – the situation in which legal  regimes interact negatively in their production  technologies. This model is then applied to the  post-colonial state of Papua New Guinea where we use survey  data to identify significant negative production  externalities in the enforcement of informal law. We  suggest that disorder may be the outcome of too much law.},
      url = {http://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/295856},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/rle-2013-0013},
}