Government rules that influence the behavior of individuals and groups are known as:

Government rules that influence the behavior of individuals and groups are known as "regulations"

Explanation:

Regulations are the subsequent rules that find their origins of authority in-laws. But, although laws define the general construction of right. Regulations separate themselves by being the flexible medium in which those laws are and can be applied. Both have the same importance and both can be applied with the same power. But the difference between one and the other is regulations are the different constructions from the same concept and idea adapted to an unlimited universe of environments and contexts. Think of laws as an idea and regulations as the languages you can use to express it.

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