A grammar of institutions for complex legal topics: Resolving statutory multiplicity and scaling up to jurisdiction‐level legal institutions.
Laws are a unique type of primary data: they structure our everyday interactions and are publicly available to all people. How can we assess the law's effect when multiple overlapping and cross‐referencing statutes constrain and incentivize behavior simultaneously? I present a principled method for...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 529 - 551 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2023
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