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Complex Societies and the Growth of the Law | | Daniel Martin Katz
; Corinna Coupette
; Janis Beckedorf
; Dirk Hartung
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15 May 2020 | | Abstract: | One of the most popular narratives about the evolution of law is its
perpetual growth in size and complexity. We confirm this claim quantitatively
for the federal legislation of two industrialised countries, finding impressive
expansion in the laws of Germany and the United States over the past two and a
half decades. Modelling 25 years of legislation as multidimensional,
time-evolving document networks, we investigate the sources of this development
using methods from network science and natural language processing. To allow
for cross-country comparisons, we reorganise the legislative materials of the
United States and Germany into clusters that reflect legal topics. We show that
the main driver behind the growth of the law in both jurisdictions is the
expansion of the welfare state, backed by an expansion of the tax state. | | Source: | arXiv, 2005.7646 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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