Research Methods in European Union Studies

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by  Kennet Lynggaard, Ian Manners, Karl Löfgren (eds.)

Research Methods in
European Union Studies
Editedby
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Ian Manners
Karl Löfgren
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Unioncountries—Politicsandgovernment—Research—Methodology.
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Contents
ListofTables,FiguresandBoxes vii
NotesonContributors viii
Part I Overview
1 CrossroadsinEuropeanUnionStudies 3
KennetLynggaard,KarlLöfgrenandIanManners
2 MethodologyinEuropeanUnionStudies 18
BenRosamond
3 EuropeanUnionHistory 37
Ann-ChristinaL.Knudsen
Part II Micro-Analysis
4 EuropeanIdentity:ConflictandCooperation 55
AngelaBourne
5 PeopleandSocialGroupsintheEuropeanUnion 72
MichaelStrange
6 SinglePolicyStudy:ThreeVariationsinDesign 86
AnnicaKronsellandIanManners
7 AnalysingEuropeanDiscourses 102
AmandineCrespy
Part III Meso-Analysis
8 StudyingAgendaSetting 123
SebastiaanPrincen
9 StudiesofBargainingintheEuropeanUnion 136
SaraHagemann
10 ImplementationStudies:BeyondaLegalisticApproach 154
KarlLöfgren
11 AnalysingNetworks 168
JennyM.LewisandSevastiChatzopoulou
v
vi Contents
12 VisualPrimesandEuropeanUnionIdentity:Designing
ExperimentalResearch 184
LauraCramandStratosPatrikios
13 Europeanisation 206
TheofanisExadaktylosandClaudioM.Radaelli
Part IV Macro-Analysis
14 TheEuropeanUnioninGlobalPolitics:NormativePowerand
LongitudinalInterpretation 221
IanManners
15 TheBlurredBoundariesandMultipleEffectsofEuropean
IntegrationandGlobalisation 237
KennetLynggaard
16 HardandSoftGovernance 252
MartinoMaggetti
17 PoliticalPartiesandtheEuropeanUnion 266
MagnusBlomgren
18 StudyingEuropeanUnionAttitudeFormationUsing
Experiments 281
JulieHassingNielsen
19 EuropeanUnionStudiesandtheNewRegionalism 297
AlexWarleigh-Lack
20 ResearchStrategiesinEuropeanUnionStudies:Beyond
Dichotomies 309
IanManners,KennetLynggaardandKarlLöfgren
Index 322
Tables, Figures and Boxes
Tables
9.1 ExamplesofexistingresearchonbargainingintheEU
usingqualitative,quantitativeandformalmethods 140
10.1 Factorsaffectingcompliance,basedonToshkov,2010 159
11.1 Classificationofnetworktypes 170
11.2 Greekagriculturalpolicynetworkin-degreeand
betweennesscentralityscores 180
12.1 Functionalimage,EUattachmentandinstrumental
responses 195
18.1 Natural,field,surveyandlaboratoryexperiments:Setting,
treatmentsandcontrol 288
18.2 MeandonationofTrustGameforT ,T andT 290
1 2 3
19.1 Benefitsofengagementwithnewregionalismstudies 299
19.2 The‘region-ness’continuum 303
19.3 EUstudies:Somehelpfromnewregionalism 305
Figures
2.1 Theevolutionoftheoreticalworkinthepoliticalscienceof
theEU 24
11.1 CAPdecision-makingnetwork,after2009 177
11.2 TheGreekagriculturalpolicynetworkshowingstrengthof
ties 179
12.1 Designofexperiment 195
12.2 Theimpactofthefunctionalcueoninstrumentalresponses
byEUattachment(Scottishsample) 196
12.3 Theimpactofthefunctionalcueoninstrumentalresponses
byEUattachment(Welshsample) 197
12.A1 Symboliccue:EUtreatment(symbolpresent) 199
12.A2 Symboliccue:Control(symbolabsent) 199
12.A3 Functionalcue:EUtreatment(symbolpresent) 200
12.A4 Functionalcue:Control(symbolabsent) 200
13.1 Usingtheclassicmodeltoexplaintherelationshipbetween
Europeanisationandintegration 210
Boxes
7.1 Maintasksintheconductofdiscourse/contentanalysis 110
13.1 MechanismsofEuropeanisation 213
vii
Contributors
Magnus Blomgren is Associate Professor in Political Science at Umeå Uni-
versity,Sweden.Hisresearchinterestrelatestovariousaspectsofdemocracy,
moreparticularly,theeffectoftheEuropeanintegrationonnationalpolitical
systems.Thisinvolvesthedevelopmentofpoliticalparties,parliamentarism
andlegislativerepresentation.Hehasrecentlyco-editedParliamentaryRoles
in Modern Legislatures (2012) and co-authored Political Parties in Multi-Level
Polities(2013).
AngelaBourneisAssociateProfessorintheDepartmentofSocietyandGlob-
alization at Roskilde University, Denmark. Her current research interests
include democratic responses to political extremism in Europe, including
processes, justifications and consequences of banning political parties. Her
previousresearchexaminedtherelationshipbetweenEUpoliticsanddevo-
lutioninmemberstates,particularlyinSpainandtheBasqueCountry.Her
publications include The European Union and the Accommodation of Basque
Difference in Spain (2008) and two edited collections, The EU and Territorial
Politics Within Member States: Conflict or Co-operation? (2004) and European
Union Studies (with M. Cini, 2006). She has also published in the Jour-
nal of Common Market Studies; Journal of Comparative Law; Democratization;
Regional and Federal Studies; Perspectives on European Politics and Society; and
InternationalJournalofIberianStudies.
SevastiChatzopoulouisAssociateProfessorinEUPoliticsandPoliciesatthe
DepartmentofSocietyandGlobalisation,RoskildeUniversity,Denmark.Her
researchinterestsfocusontheEuropeanisationofnationalpublicadminis-
trationsandregulatorypoliciesandtheroleoftheEUasaregulatoryglobal
actor,especiallyinrelationtotheUS.ShehadpublishedintheInternational
Journal of Public Administration and Perspectives on European Politics and Soci-
ety. Currently she is working on a monograph on the Europeanisation of
nationaladministrations.
LauraCramisProfessorofEuropeanPoliticsattheUniversityofEdinburgh,
UK. Her research tackles key questions about the changing parameters of
European integration such as how EU policies and institutions impact on
publicengagementwiththeEU,andhowdailyremindersofEUmembership
conditionpublicattitudestotheEUandEUpolicyprocess.Herspecialities
includeEUidentityandtheneuropoliticsofidentity,physiology,EUsocial
policy,theEuropeanCommission,civilsocietyintheEUandtheimpactof
theEUtreatiesonScotland.HerarticleshavebeenpublishedintheJournal
viii
NotesonContributors ix
of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Governance and
NationsandNationalism.
AmandineCrespyisAssistantProfessorinPoliticalScienceandEUStudies
attheUniversitéLibredeBruxelles(ULB;Centred’étudedelaviepolitique-
InstituteforEuropeanStudies),Belgium.SheholdsaPhDfromtheULBand
wasavisitingfellowattheFreieUniversitätBerlin,SciencesPoinParisand
HarvardUniversity.Herresearchmainlydealswithpoliticalconflictsrelated
totheeconomicandsocialdimensionofEUintegration.Shehasconducted
researchonEuroscepticismandresistancestoEUintegration,publicservices
liberalisation and regulation, the politics of the Eurocrisis and the role of
conflictanddiscourseinEuropeandemocracy.SheistheauthorofQuiapeur
deBolkestein?Conflit,résistancesetdémocratiedansl’Unioneuropéenne(2012),
and her articles have appeared in the Journal of Common Market Studies,
JournalofEuropeanPublicPolicyandPoliticalStudies.
Theofanis Exadaktylos is Lecturer in European Politics at the School of
Politics, University of Surrey, UK. His research interests revolve around the
Europeanisation of the national foreign policies of the EU member-states
with particular focus on Greece and Germany, issues of real and nominal
convergenceintheleastaffluentcountriesoftheunion,thepoliticalecon-
omy of transition and enlargement, policy implementation and political
trust,andthecurrentEurozonecrisisfromtheperspectiveoftheriseinpop-
ulism. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Common Market Studies.
Heistheco-editor(with.C.Radaelli)ofResearchDesigninEuropeanStudies:
EstablishingCausalityinEuropeanization(2012).
Sara Hagemann is Lecturer in EU Politics at the London School of Eco-
nomicsandPoliticalScience,UK,whereshejoinedtheEuropeanInstitutein
September2009.HerresearchinterestsincludeEUpoliticsandgovernance,
EU treaty reforms and enlargements, and transparency and accountabil-
ity in representative democracies. She has published in European Union
Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies and Journal of European Public
Policy.
Ann-ChristinaL.KnudsenisAssociateProfessorintheDepartmentofCul-
ture and Society at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research interests are
concerned with the history of European integration, the development of
transnationalpoliticalelitesandtheCommonAgriculturalPolicy.Herpub-
lications include Living Political Biography: Narrating 20th Century European
Lives (with K. Gram-Skjoldager, 2012), Farmers on Welfare: The Making of
Europe’s Common Agricultural Policy (2009) and articles in the Journal of
EuropeanIntegrationHistoryandCultures&Conflicts.