Information Technologies in Legislative Activity

Automated Legislative Information Systems

Legislative coalitions with incomplete information.

In most parliamentary democracies, proportional representation electoral rules mean that no single party controls a majority of seats in the legislature. This in turn means that the formation of majority legislative coalitions in such settings is of critical political importance. Conventional approaches to modeling the formation of such legislative coalitions typically make the "common knowledg...

Rhetoric in Legislative Bargaining with Asymmetric Information

We analyze a three-player legislative bargaining game over an ideological and a distributive decision. Legislators are privately informed about their ideological intensities, i.e., the weight placed on the ideological decision relative to the weight placed on the distributive decision. Communication takes place before a proposal is offered and majority rule voting determines the outcome. We sho...

Asymmetric Information and Legislative Rules: Some Amendments

We re-examine the major tenets of the informational theory of legislative rules, focusing on the informational efficiency of rules with varying degrees of restrictiveness. When committees are heterogeneous, full efficiency is attainable under the unrestrictive open rule as well as the somewhat restrictive modiÞed rule. In contrast, the restrictive closed rule always leads to inefficiencies. Whe...

Semantic Resources for Managing Legislative Information

XML tagging offers the possibility of embedding semantic information in legislative documents, namely, information about the normative content of the legal text [1, 4, 7, 24, 41, 44, 49]. The embedded semantic information can have different levels of depth and can have different articulated structure [3, 7]. At a first level, it only consists of keywords that are added to the text to facilitate...