CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Berki, Tamás |
|---|---|
| Title | Impact of the Hungarian parliament on Law-Making (1994-2018). Text mining and model building support for the development of the Hungarian Comparative Agendas Project. |
| Summary | The project applies the text reuse (text mining) approach to an analysis of the Hungarian parliamentary law-making process. Amendment activity of the MPs is captured by comparing the text of bills introduced with that of adopted laws between 1994 and 2018. Our corpus contains 3690 pairs of texts which is supplemented by a newly constructed set of explanatory variables which are traditionally used for assessing the structure and extent of legislative power and autonomy. Compiled dissimilarity measures show a high amendment activity, but with a considerable variation across bills and legislative cycles. By applying regression analysis, we investigate how bills’ characteristics and MPs’ strategic effort influence the extent of bills’ change. Regression results show that bills are modified less when their purpose is the ratification of international agreements or implementation of EU obligation, and more if they had been introduced by committees and MPs and not the government. In addition, we find that bills with higher importance tend to be amended to a greater degree than less important ones and legislative cycles are associated with considerable fluctuations in legislative autonomy. |
| Supervisor | Békés, Gábor |
| Department | Business School MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/berki_tamas.pdf |
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