An ever-closer union?: measuring the expansion and ideological content of European Union policy-making through an expert survey

Nanou, Kyriaki, Zapryanova, Galina and Toth, Fanni (2017) An ever-closer union?: measuring the expansion and ideological content of European Union policy-making through an expert survey. European Union Politics, 18 (4). pp. 678-693. ISSN 1741-2757

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Abstract

Only a few studies have measured the expansion of European Union competences and they have relied on information derived from consecutive treaties, producing measures that do not vary in between. But decisions on the allocation of authority to the European Union also occur regularly through secondary legislation. This article presents a new index of the Europeanisation of policy based on an expert survey. The index provides a valuable new resource, encompassing 1957 to 2014, on the distribution of authority between the European Union and member states across policy fields, and on the ideological content of primary and secondary legislation. The study discusses the contributions made to existing scholarship, presents key findings from experts’ assessments, and demonstrates how the dataset can advance research on European integration.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/898179
Keywords: Europeanisation, European Union, ideology, member states, policy-making
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116517721657
Depositing User: Eprints, Support
Date Deposited: 22 Aug 2017 11:17
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:20
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/45055

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