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Association: Name: The Midwest Political Science Association URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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Fukumoto, Kentaro. "How Many Laws does the Legislature Make? Cross Country Comparison and Cointegrated Time Series of Japan" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 18, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p83331_index.html>

Fukumoto, K. , 2004-04-18 "How Many Laws does the Legislature Make? Cross Country Comparison and Cointegrated Time Series of Japan" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p83331_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: The number of laws a legislature makes in a given year reflects the broadness or narrowness of the area in which it updates current policy during that period. The legislature decides on this so as to maximize the chair’s utility. Those variables, therefore, that increase benefit or decrease cost add to the annual number of laws; socio-economic change, political change, the strength of the governing parties, and legislative resources are expected to influence legislative productivity. In this paper, these hypotheses are tested in two ways. The first approach compares 45 countries. The second deals with the longitudinal data of Japanese lawmaking from 1961 to 1994. In terms of statistics, it is necessary to tackle the problem of spurious regressions because these time series data are unit root processes. Engle Granger methodology solves it and confirms the theory. The results show that political factors, not socio-economic ones, determine the number of laws.

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