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Wratil, Christopher ORCID: 0000-0002-7339-9628 and Hobolt, Sara B. (2019). Public deliberations in the Council of the European Union: Introducing and validating DICEU. Eur. Union Polit., 20 (3). S. 511 - 532. LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 1741-2757

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Abstract

The Council of the European Union is the European Union's most powerful legislative body. Yet, we still have limited information about Council politics because of the lack of suitable data. This paper validates a new approach to studying Council politics entitled DICEU - Debates in the Council of the European Union. This approach is the first to leverage the public videos of Council deliberations as a data source. We demonstrate the face, convergent, and predictive validity of DICEU data. Governments' ideal points scaled from these videos yield meaningful and well-known conflict dimensions. Moreover, governments' positions during Council negotiations correlate highly with expert assessments and predict subsequent votes on legislative acts. We conclude that DICEU data provide a promising new approach to studying Council politics and multilevel governance.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Wratil, Christopher UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-7339-9628 UNSPECIFIED Hobolt, Sara B. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-143255
DOI:	10.1177/1465116519839152
Journal or Publication Title:	Eur. Union Polit.
Volume:	20
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 511 - 532
Date:	2019
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1741-2757
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language DECISION-MAKING; GOVERNMENT RESPONSIVENESS; BARGAINING SUCCESS; ACTOR ALIGNMENTS; POSITIONS; MODEL; CONSENSUS; MINISTERS; CONFLICT; VOTES Multiple languages Political Science Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/14325