The Concept and Measurement of Legislative Backsliding

Author:

Sebők Miklós1,Kiss Rebeka12,Kovács Ádám1

Affiliation:

1. Centre for Social Sciences , 4 Tóth Kálmán Street, H-1097 , Budapest , Hungary

2. University of Public Service , 2 Ludovika tér, H-1083, Budapest , Hungary

Abstract

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.

Funder

European Union’s Horizon 2020 research & innovation programme

National Research, Development and Innovation Fund

‘The Quality of Government and Public Policy: A Big Data Approach’

Ministry of Culture and Innovation

NKFIH

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Law,Sociology and Political Science

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