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Evaluation-Focused Legal Content Analysis
Evaluation-focused legal content analysis is a systematic method for examining legal texts — statutes, regulations, court decisions, contracts, or policy documents — with an explicit evaluative purpose: to assess whether and how well legal instruments achieve specified goals, standards, or values. It combines the structured coding procedures of content analysis with normative legal evaluation criteria, enabling researchers and practitioners to make evidence-based assessments of legal effectiveness, compliance, or quality.
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Sources
- Krippendorff, K. (2004). Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (2nd ed.). Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0761915454
- Nourse, V., & Schacter, J. (2002). The Politics of Legislative Drafting: A Congressional Case Study. New York University Law Review, 77(3), 575–624. link ↗