Identifying delegation and constraints in legislative texts: A computational method applied to the European Union
Published online on March 04, 2026
Abstract
European Union Politics, Ahead of Print.
We introduce a computational method for identifying delegating and constraining provisions in European Union (EU) laws. Leveraging the syntactic structures employed by legislators, we developed a set of extraction rules applied through a custom-built ...
We introduce a computational method for identifying delegating and constraining provisions in European Union (EU) laws. Leveraging the syntactic structures employed by legislators, we developed a set of extraction rules applied through a custom-built ...