This note reports the results of a survey of all the articles on EU policies
published since 1994 in three major journals. It makes four recommendations. We
should probably invest more research time on (1) established policy areas that are
at the core of the Union, (2) the study of policy adjudication and the role of
courts in the EU policy process, (3) confirmatory theory-testing research and (4)
strategies that increase the number of observations, in order to make more use of
statistical estimation techniques.
Curwen, Peter
(1995)
‘Telecommunications Policy in the European Union: Developing the
Information Superhighway’
, Journal of Common Market Studies33(3):
331-360
.
2.
Dudley, Geoffrey
and
Jeremy Richardson
(1999)
‘Competing Advocacy Coalitions and the Process of
“Frame Reflection”: A Longitudinal Analysis of EU Steel Policy’
, Journal of European Public Policy6(2):
225-248
.
3.
Dunning, John H.
(1997)
‘The European Internal Market Programme and Inbound Foreign
Direct Investment’
, Journal of Common Market Studies35(1):
1-30
.
4.
Franchino, Fabio
and
Anne J. Rahming
(2003)
‘Biased Ministers, Inefficiency, and Control in Distributive
Policies: An Application to the EU Fisheries Policy’
, European Union Politics4(1):
11-36
.
5.
George, Alexander L.
and
Andrew Bennett
(2004) Case Studies and Theory Development.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
.
6.
Gerring, John
(2004)
‘What Is a Case Study and What Is It Good For?’
, American Political Science Review98(2):
341-354
.
7.
Héritier, Adrienne
(1997)
‘Policy-Making by Subterfuge: Interest Accommodation, Innovation
and Substitute Democratic Legitimation in Europe - Perspectives from
Distinctive Policy Areas’
, Journal of European Public Policy4(2):
171-189
.
8.
Howlett, Michael
and
M. Ramesh
(2003) Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy
Subsystems.
Oxford: Oxford University Press
.
9.
Payne, Dexter C.
(2000)
‘Policy-Making in Nested Institutions: Explaining the
Conservation Failure of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy’
, Journal of Common Market Studies38(2):
303-324
.
10.
Schmidt, Susanne K.
(2002)
‘The Impact of Mutual Recognition - Inbuilt Limits and Domestic
Responses to the Single Market’
, Journal of European Public Policy9(6):
935-953
.
11.
Winkler, Bernhard
(1999)
‘Is Maastricht a Good Contract?’
, Journal of Common Market Studies37(1):
39-58
.
12.
Wise, Mark
(2000)
‘The Atlantic Arc: Transnational European Reality or Regional Mirage?’
, Journal of Common Market Studies38(5):
865-890
.
13.
Zanger, Sabine C.
(2000)
‘Good Governance and European Aid. The Impact of Political Conditionality’
, European Union Politics1(3):
293-317
.
