Extracting Ideal Point Estimates from Actors' Preferences in the EU Constitutional Negotiations

Abstract: This article uses the Domestic Structures and European Integration (DOSEI) data set of actors’ preferences on 65 issues in the 2003-4 Intergovernmental Conference to extract the underlying preferences of the governments, the Commission and the European Parliament on the main dimensions of conflict in the European Union’s constitutional negotiations. The analysis starts by comparing the ideal point estimates produced by three ‘inductive’ techniques: exploratory factor analysis, NOMINATE and Optimal Classification. The results are a series of ideal point estimates that do not correlate well with some simple a priori assumptions about key actors’ positions on the reform of the EU. The analysis then proceeds with a ‘mixed’ deductive/inductive method, in which responses to the survey questions relating to the two exogenous dimensions of constitutional design in a multi-level polity (the ‘vertical’ and ‘horizontal’ allocation of power) are used to generate ideal point estimates on these

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: European Union Politics ; 6 (2005) 3 ; 353-376

Klassifikation
Politik

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2005
Urheber
Hix, Simon
Crombez, Christophe

DOI
10.1177/1465116505054837
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-228902
Rechteinformation
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Beteiligte

  • Hix, Simon
  • Crombez, Christophe

Entstanden

  • 2005

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