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Quantifying European Legislative Research: using CELEX and PreLex in EU legislative studies
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Abstract Research on European legislative decision-making has entered a stage of quantitative analysis. The quantitative approach promises to advance the current dialogue by allowing for the evaluation of competing approaches across multiple policy domains and over time. At the same time, the quantitative st... view more
Research on European legislative decision-making has entered a stage of quantitative analysis. The quantitative approach promises to advance the current dialogue by allowing for the evaluation of competing approaches across multiple policy domains and over time. At the same time, the quantitative study of EU decision-making introduces a number of drawbacks: it is difficult to identify one definitive source for legislative information, and case-level data are not directly accessible in a machine-readable format. In order to identify the most crucial pitfalls and provide a reliable data source, we evaluate the most frequently cited, publicly available EU legislative database, CELEX, and compare it with a less publicized legislative database referred to as PreLex. We find that CELEX documents legislative events, whereas PreLex records inter-institutional activities in the legislative process. Unsurprisingly, each of these databases has particular advantages, and we discuss which of the two might be better suited for the analysis of specific research questions.... view less
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
European Politics
Free Keywords
CELEX; European legislation; legislative analysis; PreLex;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2006
Page/Pages
p. 553-574
Journal
European Union Politics, 7 (2006) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116506069444
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)