Public deliberations in the Council of the European Union: Introducing and validating DICEU

Wratil, Christopher; Hobolt, Sara B.

doi:10.1177/1465116519839152

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“…These questions call for research that focusses on individual policy choices as the unit of analysis and process tracing analyses. Comparing the anticipation of public reactions across policy-drafting processes in the Commission (e.g., Hartlapp et al 2014: Chapter 9) or Council negotiations (Wratil and Hobolt 2019), for example, should illuminate how policy-makers deal with the complexity of EU politicization and value it relative to more functional concerns that have traditionally dominated EU policy-making.…”

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Going full circle: the need for procedural perspectives on EU responsiveness

Wilde

Rauh

2019

Journal of European Public Policy

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Research on policy responsiveness of the European Union has adopted the systemic model from national contexts. This focusses on the static congruence or the dynamic adaptation of aggregated policy output and similarly aggregated public opinion. Approaches in this vein provide relevant insights and uncover a surprising degree of EU responsiveness. Yet, this debate contribution argues that they only insufficiently capture indirect accountability chains and the emerging challenges of public EU politicization and mediatization. We establish the need for procedural perspectives that addresses how the different EU institutions perceive and digest public opinion and subsequently influence it through communication. To further this research agenda, we sketch the contours of a procedural model by highlighting possible variation at the input, throughput and output stages. Going full circle, we suggest, allows us to better understand the responses to public opinion and their wider implications for the societal acceptance of the unfinished supranational polity.

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Going full circle: the need for procedural perspectives on EU responsiveness

Wilde

Rauh

2019

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…2012; Accornero and Ramos Pinto 2015; Giugni and Grasso 2015; Dolezal, Hutter, and Becker 2016). Finally, in international relations, governments frequently negotiate with each other and some of these negotiations are recorded on video but not transcribed, as in some international climate change negotiations or the Council of the European Union (McKibben 2016; Wratil and Hobolt Forthcoming). Such recordings may provide novel insights into how intergovernmental negotiations unfold.…”

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“…19We take this figure from the experience of one of our co-authors in another project (for details, see Wratil and Hobolt Forthcoming). …”

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Testing the Validity of Automatic Speech Recognition for Political Text Analysis

2019

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The analysis of political texts from parliamentary speeches, party manifestos, social media, or press releases forms the basis of major and growing fields in political science, not least since advances in “text-as-data” methods have rendered the analysis of large text corpora straightforward. However, a lot of sources of political speech are not regularly transcribed, and their on-demand transcription by humans is prohibitively expensive for research purposes. This class includes political speech in certain legislatures, during political party conferences as well as television interviews and talk shows. We showcase how scholars can use automatic speech recognition systems to analyze such speech with quantitative text analysis models of the “bag-of-words” variety. To probe results for robustness to transcription error, we present an original “word error rate simulation” (WERSIM) procedure implemented in $R$. We demonstrate the potential of automatic speech recognition to address open questions in political science with two substantive applications and discuss its limitations and practical challenges.

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“…Formal procedural rules shape much of the work of the President. The debates in the Council are mainly directed towards the approval of either a Commission proposal, a Presidency compromise (or any other ‘state of play’ proposal), or a Presidency’s mandate to negotiate with the European Parliament (Wratil and Hobolt, 2019). Nevertheless, the discretion the Presidency possesses varies depending on the decision-making procedure.…”

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Can we do what we say we will do? Issue salience, government effectiveness, and the legislative efficiency of Council Presidencies

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Vaznonytė

2020

European Union Politics

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Although agenda-setting dynamics in the European Union are a well-studied phenomenon, there is a gap in the literature between the current focus on issue attention dynamics (a policy input) and the impact attention dynamics have on policy outputs. This study examines how the rotating Council Presidency’s stated policy goals for their term in office affect EU decision-making efficiency. We show that the salience the rotating chair of the Council attaches to a given policy area affects legislative efficiency in that policy area. We also demonstrate how this effect is conditioned on government effectiveness in the state of the Presidency in question, and is independent of Commission policy priorities. This suggests that the Presidency can drive EU policy outputs and push for its priorities when it holds the chair, but that its ability to do so is contingent on the domestic organisation and effectiveness of the state.

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Public deliberations in the Council of the European Union: Introducing and validating DICEU

Cited by 15 publications

References 47 publications

Going full circle: the need for procedural perspectives on EU responsiveness

Going full circle: the need for procedural perspectives on EU responsiveness

Testing the Validity of Automatic Speech Recognition for Political Text Analysis

Can we do what we say we will do? Issue salience, government effectiveness, and the legislative efficiency of Council Presidencies

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