Magda Giurcanu, with Petia Kostadinova, recently published “Capturing the legislative priorities of transnational Europarties and the European Commission: A Pledge Approach”, in European Union Politics (doi.org/10.1177/1465116518760242).
Abstract: This article presents a new dataset of pledges made by Europarties during the 2004 and 2009 European Parliament elections, as well as pre-legislative priorities of the European Commission following these elections. The data cover two legislative cycles in the period 2004-2013. The article discusses the rationale behind the development of this dataset, the coding, and the measurement of the variables, and it highlights the applicability of these data.
European Union Politics’ current 5-year Impact Factor is 2.627. The journal ranks in the top quartile of all political science journals indexed in the Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) Social Science Citation Index.
The article can be accessed online at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1465116518760242 .
Access to the dataset is provided through the Dataverse depository at Harvard University, available at: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/WUVHJP