Предметное поле законодательных исследований в политической науке

Политическая наука. 2023. № 1. С. 16–41.

Pomiguev I.

The article presents an overview of the subject field of legislative research in political science. The author conceptualizes the concepts of “legislative” and “lawmaking”, describes the main historical milestones in the development of the mentioned research area, and he also talks about the most popular topics now. The author writes about the scientific approaches and methods of studying legislative bodies and other political actors. The author's typology is built on the difference between the external and internal environment of the parliamentary activity as a subject of research. In the first case, researchers analyze the legislative work of the president, government, courts, non-majoritarian bodies, and public groups that use parliament as a field for interaction during decision-making. In the second, scholars study the legislative institutions within parliament, the processes within them and the technologies they employ. The author also notes the topics of the structural diversity of parliament, decisionmaking procedures, and networking of political actors. He describes promising directions of research on discourse and argumentation practices, including the use of neural networks. 

Keywords: political science, политическая наука, законодательный процесс, legislative process, legislative studies, законодательные исследования, legislative institutions, legislative technologies, subject of legislative studies, законодательные институты, законодательные технологии, предмет законодательных исследований