Can Better Regulation Be Achieved By Guiding Parliaments and Governments? How the Definition of the Quality of Legislation Affects Law Improvement Methods.

There is no single answer to the question whether regulation can be improved if parliaments or governments are given guidance. The problem lies in the polysemous concept of legislative quality that can be legal (subsidiarity, proportionality, legal security, transparency, …), factual (effectiveness, simplicity of State action, …) or drafting-related (clarity, consistency, concision, …). Legistics methods are required to achieve better law-making. These can be codified in both formal and material legistics guides, so that Parliaments and Governments will not only be able to improve legislative drafting, but also the law's ability to affect social reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]