Regulatory density: concept and rating scale
In: Vestnik of Kostroma State University, Heft 4, S. 186-189
The article deals with the topic of assessing the quantitative increase in the array of legal norms. Topicality of the research topic is due to the negative consequences of legislative inflation, expressed in the creation of new legal norms and the novelisation of the current legislation. The author focuses on the ratio of the number of legal norms and the volume of social relations. The article defines concept of the regulatory density. The author pays particular attention to the scale of legal regulation density. The author identifies three degrees of legal regulation density: low, medium, and high density of legal regulation. As a basis for the differentiation of the density of legal regulation, the author highlights the gaps in the legislation. The goal of a legal density scale is to manage regulatory risks associated with the high costs of legality and administrative barriers to doing business.