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- 類型：已發表論文
- 日期：2017-11-23
摘要
We explore how ideas from infectious 疾病 and 遺傳s can be used to uncover patterns of 文化 inheritance and innovation in a corpus of 591 national constitutions spanning 1789-2008. Legal ideas are encoded as topicswords 統計ly linked in documentsderived from topic modeling the corpus of constitutions. Using these topics we derive a 擴散 網絡 for borrowing from ancestral constitutions back to the US Constitution of 1789 and reveal that constitutions are complex 文化 recombinants. We find systematic variation in patterns of borrowing from ancestral texts and 生物-like behavior in patterns of inheritance, with the distribution of offspring arising through a bounded preferential-attachment process. This process leads to a small number of highly innovative (influential) constitutions some of which have yet to
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