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DESCRIPTION:Anthony DeMattee of the Carter Center will present at the Augus
 t Institutional Grammar Research Initiative (IGRI) research seminar.Abstra
 ct:Laws are a unique type of primary data: they structure our everyday int
 eractions and are publicly available to all people. How can we assess the 
 law's effect when multiple overlapping and cross-referencing statutes cons
 train and incentivize behavior simultaneously? I present a principled meth
 od for aggregating the legal rules coded in multiple laws into a single le
 gal institution to help us understand and better characterize complex\, in
 terconnected\, and sometimes contradictory bundles of legal rules. The met
 hod utilizes Institutional Grammar (IG)\, which scholars have used to code
  legal language into comparable institutional statements. The method is am
 enable to any legal topic and is especially appropriate when multiple stat
 utes simultaneously comprise the legal institution in a single jurisdictio
 n. To illustrate\, I draw on the laws regulating civil society organizatio
 ns (CS0s)\, which offer a valuable and substantively important prism to st
 udy legal texts as the cause of social phenomena or the outcome of a polit
 ical process. I discuss my proposed method in three parts: first\, why usi
 ng IG enhances a coding instrument's validity\; second\, how an IG-based i
 nstrument allows researchers to scale up coded values of separate laws int
 o a jurisdiction-level value\; finally\, I compare techniques for estimati
 ng descriptive measures of a jurisdiction's legal institution.
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SUMMARY:A Grammar of Institutions for Complex Legal Topics
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Anthony DeMattee of the Carter Center will 
 present at the August Institutional Grammar Research Initiative (IGRI) res
 earch seminar.</p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong></p><p>Laws are a unique ty
 pe of primary data: they structure our everyday interactions and are publi
 cly available to all people. How can we assess the law's effect when multi
 ple overlapping and cross-referencing statutes constrain and incentivize b
 ehavior simultaneously? I present a principled method for aggregating the 
 legal rules coded in multiple laws into a single legal institution to help
  us understand and better characterize complex\, interconnected\, and some
 times contradictory bundles of legal rules. The method utilizes Institutio
 nal Grammar (IG)\, which scholars have used to code legal language into co
 mparable institutional statements. The method is amenable to any legal top
 ic and is especially appropriate when multiple statutes simultaneously com
 prise the legal institution in a single jurisdiction. To illustrate\, I dr
 aw on the laws regulating civil society organizations (CS0s)\, which offer
  a valuable and substantively important prism to study legal texts as the 
 cause of social phenomena or the outcome of a political process. I discuss
  my proposed method in three parts: first\, why using IG enhances a coding
  instrument's validity\; second\, how an IG-based instrument allows resear
 chers to scale up coded values of separate laws into a jurisdiction-level 
 value\; finally\, I compare techniques for estimating descriptive measures
  of a jurisdiction's legal institution.</p>
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