Rules as policy data? Measuring and linking policy substance and legislative context

There is growing scholarly interest in analyzing changes policies, laws, and regulations. Some concepts depart from the goal of identifying policy substance. Other contributions have concentrated on structural characteristics laws regulations containing these substantive changes. Extracting measures substance legislative texts a challenging time-consuming endeavor as it requires manual assessment coding legal acts. The regulations, by contrast, can be done applying automated natural language processing. An important critical question is, thus, whether we combine approaches simplify information extraction inferring context which are embedded. Examining more than 100 acts area EU environmental climate policy, find that capturing not systematically linked. In other words: features cannot used an approximation for We conclude sketching out research agenda when (and not) to use different related measurements.