Currently, a number of related coding projects is being undertaken in order to create a comprehensive EU policy agendas dataset. These include projects to code:
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European Council conclusions (carried out by Marcello Carammia in Catania, and Sebastiaan Princen and Arco Timmermans in The Hague)
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EP documents (Sylvain Brouard and Olivier Costa in Bordeaux)
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EU legislation (Gerard Breeman in The Hague and Emiliano Grossman in Paris)
Datasets for each of these documents will be completed from the summer of 2010 onwards. Subsequently, we are planning to take up other types of EU documents, including most prominently COM documents (European Commission preparatory documents).
Existing work using the policy agendas coding scheme has so far focused on specific parts of the EU agenda:
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A group around Renaud Dehousse at Sciences Po Paris has coded EU legislation in the period 2002-2007. The results of their analyses have been published in Que Fait l’Europe?/What is Europe Up To? (Presses Sciences Po, 2009). Click here for more information.
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Sebastiaan Princen has coded EP Questions and COM documents in the fields of environmental and health policy from 1975 to 2005. Based on this dataset and a number of case studies, he has published Agenda-Setting in the European Union (Palgrave, 2009). Click here for more information.
For further information on the EU policy agendas project, please contact Sebastiaan Princen at s.b.m.princen@uu.nl | 