Enhancement: Introduce Extended Compliance Rules #1–#15

[pethers]

Objective / Context

We want to enhance the existing Drools-based compliance checks in the CIA project to capture more domain-focused scenarios that a political analyst, journalist, or researcher might find valuable. These new or extended rules build upon the existing PoliticianComplianceCheckImpl and PartyComplianceCheckImpl classes, leveraging annual summaries and additional attributes (e.g., days served, document counts, leadership roles, etc.). By adding these rules, we aim to:

• Provide broader coverage of potential compliance or oversight scenarios.
• Highlight interesting patterns such as high absenteeism, underrepresentation, high leadership concentration, unproductive parties or politicians, and more.
• Facilitate journalistic insights and help researchers quickly flag anomalies or noteworthy behaviors in the data.

Below is a list of 15 proposed rules (short names + purpose). They can be integrated into the new .drl files or integrated into existing ones based on the current rule structure.

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Summary of Proposed Rules

1. Politician with Extremely High Committee Leadership Ratio

   • Purpose: Flags a politician whose ratio of committeeLeadershipDays / committeeDays exceeds a certain threshold (e.g., >70%), indicating outsized influence in committee leadership roles.

2. Politician with Extremely Low Annual Attendance

   • Purpose: Highlights a politician whose annual absence rate surpasses a threshold (e.g., >50%), suggesting lack of participation in parliamentary votes.

3. Newly Registered Party with High Absence Rate

   • Purpose: Identifies a party registered for fewer than N months/years but showing significant absenteeism (e.g., >30%) in votes. Suggests poor discipline or insufficient representation.

4. Politician Leading Multiple Committees Simultaneously

   • Purpose: Warns if a single politician holds multiple committee leadership roles at once (e.g., more than 1 active leadership assignment).

5. Politician with Extensive EU Experience but Zero Government Experience

   • Purpose: Catches a scenario where a politician has served many days in EU roles (activeEu) but never served in national government, possibly indicating a gap in domestic policy background.

6. Politician with High Annual Document Output

   • Purpose: Flags a politician who filed or produced an unusually large number of official documents (motions, proposals, etc.) in a year (above a certain threshold), indicating a surge in legislative activity.

7. Politician Filed Zero Motions in the Past Year

   • Purpose: Opposite scenario where an active politician has authored no motions (or formal proposals) in a year, raising questions about engagement or productivity.

8. Party with Single Person Controlling Multiple Leadership Roles

   • Purpose: Detects if one key individual in a party holds multiple top roles (e.g., leader + speaker + prime minister), potentially concentrating too much power in one person.

9. Party Forming Coalition with Previously Opposed Party

   • Purpose: Highlights a sudden alignment shift if a party that historically opposed another has recently formed a coalition, signifying a notable change in political stance.

10. Politician Changed Party Multiple Times

    • Purpose: Flags a politician who switched parties more than N times (e.g., >2) over a certain period, possibly indicating opportunistic or unstable allegiance.

11. Party with Single-Year Abstain Spike

    • Purpose: Detects if a party’s annual abstention rate in votes jumped above a certain threshold, suggesting internal conflict or strategic abstentions.

12. Politician Near or Past Retirement Age Holding Multiple Roles

    • Purpose: Draws attention to a politician older than 65 or 70 who continues to hold multiple key positions (e.g., active committee + government role). Could prompt succession or turnover discussions.

13. Party with No Official Documents This Year

    • Purpose: Flags a party that published zero motions/documents in an entire year, implying inactivity or lack of legislative initiative.

14. Politician Overshadowed in Committee Leadership

    • Purpose: Inverse scenario: a politician has a seat in a committee but shows minimal engagement (low doc output or speaking share), indicating under-utilization or overshadowed leadership.

15. Party Reliant on Very Small Headcount

    • Purpose: Checks if a party’s headCount is under a minimal threshold while still claiming broad coverage, raising representation concerns or potential compliance issues.

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Implementation Details

• Most of these rules rely on annual summary data for politicians (ViewRiksdagenVoteDataBallotPoliticianSummaryAnnual) or parties (ViewRiksdagenVoteDataBallotPartySummaryAnnual).
• Some also require or benefit from helper methods in:
  • PoliticianComplianceCheckImpl (e.g., getAnnualDocumentCount(), isMultipleLeadershipRolesActive(), etc.)
  • PartyComplianceCheckImpl (e.g., daysSinceRegistered(), getPartyHeadCount(), or getAnnualDocumentCount()).
• Where additional data is required (like document summaries), we may need to load extra facts in RulesEngineImpl or embed them in these compliance-check objects.

Goal: Merge these extended checks into the project’s .drl files, providing more comprehensive oversight and producing new RuleViolation records for both Politicians and Parties when they meet these conditions.

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