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© 2018, The Author(s). Constitutions help define domestic political orders, but are known to be influenced by international mechanisms that are normative, temporal and network based. Here we introduce the concept of the ‘provision space’—the set of all legal provisions existing across the world’s constitutions, which grows over time. We make use of techniques from network science and information retrieval to quantify and compare temporal and network effects on constitutional change, which have been the focus of previous work. Furthermore, we propose that hierarchical effects—a set of mechanisms by which the adoption of certain constitutional provisions leads to or facilitates the adoption of additional provisions—are also crucial. These hierarchical mechanisms appear to play an important role in the emergence of new political rights, and may therefore provide a useful roadmap for advocates of those rights.
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mit-1721.1/1325222021-09-21T03:02:37Z Inferring mechanisms for global constitutional progress © 2018, The Author(s). Constitutions help define domestic political orders, but are known to be influenced by international mechanisms that are normative, temporal and network based. Here we introduce the concept of the ‘provision space’—the set of all legal provisions existing across the world’s constitutions, which grows over time. We make use of techniques from network science and information retrieval to quantify and compare temporal and network effects on constitutional change, which have been the focus of previous work. Furthermore, we propose that hierarchical effects—a set of mechanisms by which the adoption of certain constitutional provisions leads to or facilitates the adoption of additional provisions—are also crucial. These hierarchical mechanisms appear to play an important role in the emergence of new political rights, and may therefore provide a useful roadmap for advocates of those rights. 2021-09-20T18:22:49Z 2021-09-20T18:22:49Z 2019-07-25T15:41:08Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132522 en 10.1038/S41562-018-0382-8 Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Springer Nature America, Inc arXiv
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Inferring mechanisms for global constitutional progress
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Inferring mechanisms for global constitutional progress
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Inferring mechanisms for global constitutional progress
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Inferring mechanisms for global constitutional progress
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Inferring mechanisms for global constitutional progress
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Inferring mechanisms for global constitutional progress
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inferring mechanisms for global constitutional progress
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/132522
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