The Concept and Measurement of Legislative Backsliding

IF 1.3 3区 社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Miklós Sebők, Rebeka Kiss, A. Kovacs
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Abstract

The article examines the concept of legislative backsliding and offers a measurement strategy for its empirical analysis. Legislative backsliding is defined as a move away from liberal democracy in four critical dimensions of legislative quality, its public policy; legal-constitutional-formal; procedural; and stability aspects. We operationalise each of these dimensions with their separate indices relying on components such as stakeholder consultations, time passed between bill introduction and passing the law as well as results of constitutional reviews. We use qualitative mini case studies from Hungary, widely considered from 2010 on to be a poster child for democratic backsliding, to illustrate the viability of the proposed measurement strategy. We find that laws which show deficiencies in terms of legislative quality exhibit them in not just but several dimensions. Based on the case studies we offer insights into scaling up the law-level analysis to the level of legislative cycles and show how the legislative quality index can be used to measure macro-level legislative backsliding.
立法倒退的概念与测度
本文考察了立法倒退的概念,并为其实证分析提供了衡量策略。立法倒退被定义为在立法质量、公共政策四个关键方面背离自由民主;法律宪法形式;程序性;以及稳定性方面。我们根据利益相关者协商、法案出台和法律通过之间的时间以及宪法审查结果等组成部分,将这些维度中的每一个维度及其单独的指数进行操作。我们使用匈牙利的定性小型案例研究来说明拟议衡量战略的可行性。匈牙利从2010年起被广泛认为是民主倒退的典型代表。我们发现,在立法质量方面存在缺陷的法律不仅在几个方面,而且在几个方面都存在缺陷。基于案例研究,我们提供了将法律层面的分析扩展到立法周期层面的见解,并展示了如何使用立法质量指数来衡量宏观层面的立法倒退。
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Parliamentary Affairs
Parliamentary Affairs POLITICAL SCIENCE-
CiteScore
3.00
自引率
8.30%
发文量
26
期刊介绍: Parliamentary Affairs is an established, peer-reviewed academic quarterly covering all the aspects of government and politics directly or indirectly connected with Parliament and parliamentary systems in Britain and throughout the world. The journal is published in partnership with the Hansard Society. The Society was created to promote parliamentary democracy throughout the world, a theme which is reflected in the pages of Parliamentary Affairs.
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