扩大规模的法律:美国地方的法律和社会复杂性
Elliott Ash1, Christoph Goessmann1, Suresh Naidu2
1ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
概括
美国城市的法律代码复杂性随着人口规模的增加而几何增长. 这一发现表明,法律与社会互动相匹配,类似于人均经济增长.
科学领域:
- 复杂性科学 复杂性科学
- 城市研究 城市研究
- 法律与治理 法律与治理
背景情况:
- 法律法规为社会和经济互动提供了必不可少的基础设施,特别是在陌生人之间.
- 法律法规等公共产品对于促进社区内投资和创新至关重要.
- 了解法律复杂性的扩展特性对于城市规划和政策制定至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 调查法律法规复杂性与美国市政当局人口规模之间的关系.
- 量化法律复杂性如何与不同城市的人口相变.
- 探索这种缩放对理解城市环境中的社会规范的影响.
主要方法:
- 分析了来自美国3,259个城市的大量市政法规.
- 使用多个定量指标 (例如,字数,字节大小,压缩字节大小) 测量法律复杂性.
- 调度法分析的应用,以确定人口和法律复杂性之间的关系.
主要成果:
- 法律代码的复杂性表现出与司法管辖区人口的几何缩放.
- 发现缩放参数大约为0.2,R平方值大约为0.2.2.
- 这个缩放参数与人均国内生产总值的参数相当.
结论:
- 法律复杂性可预见地随着人口的增加而扩大,这表明监管需求的系统增长.
- 这些发现支持对法律法规的解释,将其视为对人均社会互动进行调节的机制.
- 这项研究为法律和城市治理研究提供了复杂性科学视角.
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