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
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 information serially. Therefore, they can be expected to demonstrate issue proclivity – long-term specialization in a narrow set of topics. In the European Union, the European Council and the...
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