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European Union Politics, Vol. 7, No. 4, 553-574 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1465116506069444

Quantifying European Legislative Research

Using CELEX and PreLex in EU Legislative Studies

Thomas König

German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer, Germany

Brooke Luetgert

German University of Administrative Sciences, Speyer, Germany

Tanja Dannwolf

University of Mannheim, Germany

Research on European legislative decision-making has entered a stage of quantitative analysis. The quantitative approach promises to advance the current dialogue by allowing for the evaluation of competing approaches across multiple policy domains and over time. At the same time, the quantitative study of EU decision-making introduces a number of drawbacks: it is difficult to identify one definitive source for legislative information, and case-level data are not directly accessible in a machine-readable format. In order to identify the most crucial pitfalls and provide a reliable data source, we evaluate the most frequently cited, publicly available EU legislative database, CELEX, and compare it with a less publicized legislative database referred to as PreLex. We find that CELEX documents legislative events, whereas PreLex records inter-institutional activities in the legislative process. Unsurprisingly, each of these databases has particular advantages, and we discuss which of the two might be better suited for the analysis of specific research questions.

Key Words: CELEX • European legislation • legislative analysis • PreLex


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