Quantitative Legislative and Compliance Research in the European Union

Research question/goal: 

The primary goal of our project is to gain a systematic empirical perspective on European political integration and member state compliance over the last twenty-five years. Our contribution will entail the production of the single most complete and cross-validated data set covering Community legislation across all policy areas from its initiation through adoption, member state transposition, Commission enforcement and ECJ decision. We propose the combination of multiple online and print resources into a machine readable dataset covering member state preferences (derived from party manifestos), the initiation and adoption of Community legislation, the national transposition process of all member states, other domestic legislative activity of selected member states, the infringement proceedings initiated by Commission monitoring of member state transposition and finally the documented European Court of Justice proceedings and decisions. These data represent an invaluable asset to the greater scholarly community and will allow the project team to analyze several innovative aspects of legislative conflict, consensus, compliance and enforcement control.

Current stage: 

Following the decision to integrate a national legislative focus into this project for submitting a proposal for funding to the German-Israel Foundation (GIF) in collaboration with the Hebrew University, which has been rejected, this project will be pursued in Ms. Luetgert’s postdoctoral research on the basis of a Margarete von Wrangell-Grant.

Fact sheet

Funding: 
MZES
Duration: 
2007 to 2010
Status: 
canceled
Data Sources: 
Data based on official documents (European Parliament, Europ
Geographic Space: 
European Union Member States

Publications