European Union

Datasets

The only completed and publicly released dataset in our project is the dataset on European Council Conclusions (1975-2014)

Prime Minister & Executive

• European Council Conclusions (abridged for the trends tool)

  The European Council Conclusions dataset includes all conclusions issued by the European Council since its first meeting in 1975. The initial dataset covered the period 1975-2012, and was later expanded to the end of 2014.

   

  All documents are coded for policy content using the EU Policy Agendas Project codebook at the quasi-sentence level. The dataset encompasses conclusions, declarations and some other files but for the sake of simplicity we refer to all documents as conclusions.

   

  Project coordinator: Petya Alexandrova

  Project members: Marcello Carammia, Sebastiaan Princen and Arco Timmermans

   

  For citations to the dataset and a detailed explanation of its features and potential applications, use the following reference: Alexandrova, Petya, Marcello Carammia, Sebastiaan Princen, and Arco Timmermans (2014). Measuring the European Council Agenda: Introducing a New Approach and Dataset. Forthcoming in European Union Politics 15(1): 152-167. If you decide to use the dataset in your research, we would be happy to hear about that.

  
  48321 observations spanning the years 1975 to 2014
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• European Council Conclusions (complete)

  The European Council Conclusions dataset includes all conclusions issued by the European Council since its first meeting in 1975. The initial dataset covered the period 1975-2012, and was later expanded to the end of 2014.

   

  All documents are coded for policy content using the EU Policy Agendas Project codebook at the quasi-sentence level. The dataset encompasses conclusions, declarations and some other files but for the sake of simplicity we refer to all documents as conclusions.  

   

  Project coordinator: Petya Alexandrova

  Project members: Marcello Carammia, Sebastiaan Princen and Arco Timmermans

   

  For citations to the dataset and a detailed explanation of its features and potential applications, use the following reference: Alexandrova, Petya, Marcello Carammia, Sebastiaan Princen, and Arco Timmermans (2014). Measuring the European Council Agenda: Introducing a New Approach and Dataset. Forthcoming in European Union Politics 15(1): 152-167. If you decide to use the dataset in your research, we would be happy to hear about that.

  
  This dataset is not available in the trends tool.
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Research

Institutional Issue Proclivity in the EU

In an article forthcoming in the Journal of European Public Policy, Petya Alexandrova develops the notion of institutional issue proclivity. Macropolitical institutional venues deal with a large scope of policy areas but, due to cognitive and institutional constraints, process ... Read more

Agenda Responsiveness in the European Council

In an article in West European Politics, Petya Alexandrova, Anne Rasmussen and Dimiter Toshkov explores the synchronic and diachronic associations between what citizens in the EU consider to be the most important problems and the political attention devoted to these issues in the ... Read more

Agenda Formation Perspective on the European Council

In an article in the Journal of Common Market Studies, Marcello Carammia, Sebastiaan Princen and Arco Timmermans review the key role of the European Council in the EU's institutional architecture. They argue that an analysis of agenda formation dynamics in the European Council ... Read more

Political Attention and Issue Character

In an article in European Political Science Review, Petya Alexandrova uses the notion of issue character to explain attention allocation in the European Council. Policy issues compete for the attention of political actors, and the size of the agenda an issue can occupy is largely ... Read more

Staff

Petya Alexandrova

Title: Dr.
Institution(s): University of Oxford

Petya Alexandrova is Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Oxford, Department of Politics and International Relations. Previously she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Political Science, Leibniz University Hannover (DE) and a visiting lecturer at Jacobs University Bremen (DE). Petya is also a Fellow at the Montesquieu Institute in The Hague (NL). She holds a PhD from Leiden University (2014). Her research focuses on policy and institutions in the European Union (EU).

Petya is the coordinator for the EU Policy Agendas Project.

petya.alexandrova@politics.ox.ac.uk

Sebastiaan Princen

Title: Prof.
Institution(s): Utrecht University, School of Governance

Sebastiaan Princen is Professor of Governance and Policymaking in the European Union at Utrecht University's School of Governance. Since 2010 he is also a fellow at the Montesquieu Institute in The Hague. Sebastiaan teaches courses on policy processes, public law, policy implementation, and European integration in USG’s bachelor’s, master’s and executive programmes. His research focuses on issues of international and European governance, more specifically policy-making in the European Union. In recent years he has published extensively on processes of agenda-setting in the EU. In addition, Sebastiaan has participated in studies on the Europeanisation of the Dutch civil service, the role of interest groups in the EU, and cross-border cooperation between local governments.

S.B.M.Princen@uu.nl

Marcello Carammia

Title: Dr.
Institution(s): University of Malta

Marcello Carammia is Senior Lecturer in European politics at the Institute for European Studies of the University of Malta, that he joined in October 2011. He received a Ph.D in Comparative and European Politics at the  University of Siena in 2008, and between 2009 and 2011 was a post-doctoral fellow and an adjunct professor at the University of Catania. He has been a visiting scholar at the Universities of Sheffield, Zaragoza, and at the Center for European Studies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on comparative and EU politics and public policy. He is particularly interested in immigration policy, political parties, and the relationship between institutional and political change. He is also a member of the Italian Policy Agendas Project and Fellow at the Montesquieu Institute.

marcello.carammia@um.edu.mt