The European Union Legislative Output (1996-2021)

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Bendjaballah, Selma; Dehousse, Renaud, 2023, "The European Union Legislative Output (1996-2021)", https://doi.org/10.21410/7E4/MVHNE4, data.sciencespo, V1

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Description	The European Union’s (EU) institutional system is a key element of EU policy-making, as it influences both the adoption and implementation of joint decisions. However, it remains ill understood, including by the scholarly community, to a certain extent. In order to remedy this weakness in international research on the European Union, the Centre for European Studies and the Centre for socio-political data led a systematic analysis of the decision-making at a European level through an innovative scientific approach. This inter alia led to the establishment by the research team of a database on European institutions which have no equivalent internationally. First, the research team built a database which covers all the legislative acts adopted by the European Union from 1996 to 2021. Second, to observe the decision-making, the research team defined variables which explore the political logics that lead to the adoption of legislative texts by the European Union's institutions. The variables deal with three main aspects of the political activity: - the activity of European Union institutions: the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of Ministers; - the duration ; - the activity of Member States.
Subject	Social Sciences
Keyword	European Union, Legislative process, Politics
Related Publication	DEHOUSSE Renaud, BENDJABALLAH Selma, MICHAUD Geneviève et al., "The Observatory of European Institutions. A Dataset On The Decision Making In The European Union (1996-2014)", Politique européenne, 2017/4 (No 58), p. 14-42. URL: https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-politique-europeenne-2017-4-page-14.htm doi: 10.3917/poeu.058.0014 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02184112v1
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Dataset Persistent ID	doi:10.21410/7E4/MVHNE4
Publication Date	2023-10-19
Title	The European Union Legislative Output (1996-2021)
Author	Bendjaballah, Selma (Sciences Po, Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP), CNRS) Dehousse, Renaud (European University Institute) - ORCID: 0000-0002-1781-9499
Contact	Use email button above to contact. Sciences Po, Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP), CNRS
Description	The European Union’s (EU) institutional system is a key element of EU policy-making, as it influences both the adoption and implementation of joint decisions. However, it remains ill understood, including by the scholarly community, to a certain extent. In order to remedy this weakness in international research on the European Union, the Centre for European Studies and the Centre for socio-political data led a systematic analysis of the decision-making at a European level through an innovative scientific approach. This inter alia led to the establishment by the research team of a database on European institutions which have no equivalent internationally. First, the research team built a database which covers all the legislative acts adopted by the European Union from 1996 to 2021. Second, to observe the decision-making, the research team defined variables which explore the political logics that lead to the adoption of legislative texts by the European Union's institutions. The variables deal with three main aspects of the political activity: - the activity of European Union institutions: the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of Ministers; - the duration ; - the activity of Member States.
Subject	Sciences sociales
Keyword	European Union (ELSST) https://elsst.cessda.eu/id/abcac2a6-67a3-46cc-8fb4-0d484020aade Legislative process (ELSST) https://elsst.cessda.eu/id/a3994911-1735-4f40-8a75-5de23a391f64 Politics (ELSST) https://elsst.cessda.eu/id/2a3757a5-3fff-4c52-a9a1-64467398851b
Related Publication	DEHOUSSE Renaud, BENDJABALLAH Selma, MICHAUD Geneviève et al., "The Observatory of European Institutions. A Dataset On The Decision Making In The European Union (1996-2014)", Politique européenne, 2017/4 (No 58), p. 14-42. URL: https://www.cairn-int.info/journal-politique-europeenne-2017-4-page-14.htm doi: 10.3917/poeu.058.0014 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02184112v1
Deposit Date	2023-10-19

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Unit of Analysis	Événement / Processus / Activité; Espace politico-administratif
Time Method	Série temporelle
Sampling Procedure	Autre
Collection Mode	Codage de contenu
Characteristics of Data Collection Situation	The research team designed several steps to collect the data. 1. the research team listed manually for each year, all the adopted legislative acts with an .xls file. There are then 25 files, covering the 25 years from 1996 to 2021. Each file contains an amount from 50 to 200 acts on average. For each act, several information are given about the legislative act. These information are all extracted from the three official websites of the EU institutions. For each act, the following information will be found: - the reference of the legislative procedure; - the reference of the proposal that initiates the legislative procedure; - the acronym of EU Member States which abstained or voted against the act in the Council.- the Celex reference of the act. 2. Several other information related to each adopted legislative act have been automatically extracted from the official Websites. These information deal with: - the rapporteur of the European Parliament who examined the proposal; - the votes of the European Parliament; - the Commissioner in charge of the proposal; - the date of the proposal's transmission to the Council; 3. Finally, the research team manually retrieved, extracted, and compiled one third of the variables. To this end, the research team built "external tables" following manual research through : - other European Institutions websites; - other European Research Projects led at Sciences- Po.
Notes	Data Collection Notes: The EU adopts many acts, whose political and judicial nature varies a lot. Determining with precision what are the legislative output of the EU was sometimes a challenging task. In order to determine the true political productivity of the EU, all the legislative acts that have been adopted by the EU institutions from 1996 to 2021, as they are listed in the Council Monthly Summary of Acts, in the Annex I or in the Annex II, have been selected. The Monthly Summary of Acts have been chosen for three main reasons: 1. they are presumably the most important acts; 2. they are the only acts for which votes cast by member states during their final adoption are systematically made public. This data is crucial since it might give an insight into other aspects of the political activity within the European Union; 3. they are acts whose adoption is undoubtful. Following the Monthly Summary of Acts available on the Council Website. Obvioulsy, this focus on adopted acts means that many other acts have been left aside. For instance, the proposed legislation is not included in the study. All the acts that have been proposed, but, for some reason rejected, are then not included in the database. However, the total corpus of acts is both representative and consistent enough to capture the political activity of the EU over time.

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