Informal politics of codecision dataset

Abstract

This dataset, created as part of the research project on 'The Informal Politics of Codecision' - funded by the Research Council of the European University Institute (EUI) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC; Grant RES-000-22-3661) - is constituted by all 797 legislative files concluded under codecision between 1999 and 2009. It presents a new variable, 'early agreement', indicating whether legislation has been agreed informally, in trilogues, by the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. It also includes variables with characteristics of the legislative file (legal nature, policy area, complexity, media salience, policy type, duration) and of the legislative negotiators (priorities of the Council Presidency, ideological distance between the Parliamentﾒs rapporteur and the national minister, the Presidencyﾒs workload).