Your comment implicitly defines legislative success in terms of long-running popularity. What is the intended purpose of such a definition? Is it meant to be e

Your comment implicitly defines legislative success in terms of long-running popularity. What is the intended purpose of such a definition? Is it meant to be explanatory? Predictive? Normative? Have you thought about the limitations of such a definition along these three categories? Is this definition an attempt to find a neutral definition of legislative success? Or at least an attempt to find a definition that can be easily measured?