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Public Voting Data of the Council of the EU

Ondarza, Nicolai von; Bochtler, Paul
SWP - German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Data File Version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/2560
Abstract: This data set contains the voting behaviour of EU member states in public votes of the Council of the EU from 2010 to 2023. Particular attention was given to the following issues: How often did the Council adopt decision by consensus despite voting under qualified majority? Which member states are most often outvoted? Did these pattern change during the Covid-19 pandemic, when the Council had to resort to video meetings? To answer these questions, a new dataset of public data from the EU was cleaned for easy access and analysis. This dataset encompasses all voting data from the public votes in ... more
Availability: Free access (without registration)
License: CC BY 4.0: Attribution (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.de)
Subject area: [European Politics [=] International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy]
Topics: voting | European Policy | European institution | political negotiation

Methodology

Date(s) of Data Collection: 2010-01; 2023-04
Geographic coverage: [Malta / MT [=] Portugal / PT [=] Germany / DE [=] Austria / AT [=] Belgium / BE [=] Bulgaria / BG [=] Croatia / HR [=] Cyprus / CY [=] Czech Republic / CZ [=] Denmark / DK [=] Estonia / EE [=] Finland / FI [=] France / FR [=] Greece / GR [=] Hungary / HU [=] Ireland / IE [=] Italy / IT [=] Latvia / LV [=] Lithuania / LT [=] Luxembourg / LU [=] Net ... more
Geographic coverage (free): [EU-28 [=] EU-27]
Universe: All public votes in the Council of the EU
Sampling Procedure: Total Universe / Complete enumeration
Temporal Research Design: Time series
Mode of Data Collection: Compilation/Synthesis

Bibliographic information

Primärforschende, Institution: Ondarza, Nicolai von; Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik | Bochtler, Paul; Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
Publication year: 2023
DOI: 10.7802/2560
Study number: SDN-10.7802-2560
Contributor, Institution, Role: [Mintel, Julina; Bundestag (Project Member)]
Publisher: SWP - German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Versions

Current Version: 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/2560
Version history: ... more

Reference publications

Publications: Working paper on “Consensus per Video? Decision-Making in the Council of the EU during the Covid-19 Pandemic”. | Comment "More EU Decisions by Qualified Majority Voting – but How?" by Julina Mintel and Nicolai von Ondarza

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Ondarza, Nicolai von, & Bochtler, Paul (2023). Public Voting Data of the Council of the EU. SWP - German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Data File Version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.7802/2560.

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