Ever more soft law? A dataset to compare binding and non-binding EU law across policy areas and over time (2004–2019)

IF 2.9 1区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

European Union Politics Pub Date : 2022-07-15 DOI:10.1177/14651165221111985

Bartolomeo Cappellina, Anne Ausfelder, Adam Eick, Romain Mespoulet, M. Hartlapp, Sabine Saurugger, Fabien Terpan

引用次数: 3

Abstract

What characterizes European Union soft law and what are its implications for the EU multilevel system? What is the proportion of hard and soft law in EU policy? Which types of soft law act are adopted in different policy sectors? This article introduces the conceptual and analytical framework that encompasses the EfSoLaw dataset and explains its methodology, advantages, and limitations. This dataset unites information on thousands of EU hard and soft law acts from seven different policy sectors, drawn from over fifteen years (2004–2019) and from various sources (EUR-Lex, DGs, agencies). We present implementation options of the dataset making it exploitable for other scholars and we propose hypotheses to explain the variation in the adoption of soft law in different policy sectors.

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更软的法律？一个数据集，用于比较不同政策领域和一段时间内具有约束力和不具有约束力的欧盟法律（2004-2009）

欧盟软法律的特点是什么？它对欧盟多层次体系的影响是什么？硬法律和软法律在欧盟政策中所占的比例是多少？不同的政策部门采用了哪些类型的软法律法案？本文介绍了包含EfSoLaw数据集的概念和分析框架，并解释了其方法、优势和局限性。该数据集汇集了来自七个不同政策部门的数千项欧盟硬法律和软法律法案的信息，这些信息来自15年多（2004-2019）和各种来源（EUR-Lex、DG、机构）。我们提出了数据集的实施选项，使其可供其他学者使用，并提出了假设来解释不同政策部门采用软法律的差异。

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European Union Politics POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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4.70

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21.70%

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期刊介绍： European Union Politics is an international academic journal for advanced peer-reviewed research and scholarship on all aspects of the process of government, politics and policy in the European Union. It aims to stimulate debate and provide a forum to bridge the theoretical and empirical analysis on the political unification of Europe. It represents no particular school or approach, nor is it wedded to any particular methodology. In particular it welcomes articles that offer a new theoretical argument, analyze original data in a novel fashion or present an innovative methodological approach. The Editors invite submissions from all sub-fields of contemporary political science, including international relations, comparative politics, public administration, public policy and political theory.