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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
  download dataset   download codebook
• 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.
  download dataset   download codebook

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

Explore Policy Trends

The EU Policy Agendas Project studies attention to policy issues in the European Union and its institutions. What issues feature on the EU agenda at specific points in time? How does the definition of issues change? What factors drive the formation of EU priorities? How does the EU address policy problems?

The EU Policy Agendas Project is an international collaboration between researchers interested in these questions. To analyse agenda-setting processes in the EU we develop systematic indicators of policy attention in its institutions. We compile large datasets of EU activities and conduct more in-depth analyses on speecific policy themes.

More information on our completed and running projects is available at www.policyagendas.eu.

Principal Investigator: Petya Alexandrova/ Sebastiaan Princen/ Marcello Carammia
Location: The United Kingdom/ The Netherlands/ Malta
Email: eupolicyagendas@gmail.com
Downloadable Data Series: 1
Time Span: 1975-2014
Total Observations: 48,321

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