9 research outputs found
The Boundaries and External Connections of the Hyperlink Network of Hungarian Websites in Romania
Gossip is more than just story telling : Topic modeling and quantitative analysis on a spontaneous speech corpus
Miért kérdeznek a képviselők? : Az interpellációk benyújtásának tényezői Magyarországon, 1990 és 2014 között
Measuring legislative stability - A new approach with data from Hungary
While the stability of legislation is one of the fundamental issues in political theory,
comparative and quantitative analyses on the subject are in short supply in the politi-
cal science literature. In this article, we propose a novel measurement scheme for
legislative stability, and we also introduce a Legislative Stability Index (LSI) devel-
oped to this end. In terms of empirical evidence, our index relies on the number of
legislative amendments adopted within the span of an electoral cycle, as well as the
breadth of issues the amendments touch on. It is based on the frequency with which
laws are amended after their adoption. Our approach uses a new law-amendment
edge-type network for a new Hungarian legislative database. Amendment-type con-
nections are discovered by an automated dictionary-based text mining method. We
tested the applicability of our index in various regression models. Results show that
the legislative term, the length of the law and the way it was adopted were the most
significant variables in explaining variation in the stability of legislation