Project Details
Projekt
The politics of framing in the European Union: the role of national interest groups
Applicant
Professor Dr. Rainer Eising
Subject Area
Political Science
Term
from 2011 to 2015
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 183850568
Which frames come to dominate in EU policy-making? Answering this question is important to interest group and policy students as well as to rationalist and constructivist accounts of European integration. The project maps and explains the politics of framing in the EU multilevel system, focusing on the interaction among national level and EU level framing processes. It will be performed in close collaboration with partners in eight European countries and in the United States within a larger ESF/European Collaborative Research Project that investigates the role of policy information in the influence production process in 120 EU policy proposals. The German study focuses on the framing entrepreneurship of interest groups in Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, building on interviews with policy-makers and interest groups, a content analysis of documents for 20 EU policy issues, and case study methods for a selected sub-set of 5-6 issues. Parallel framing studies will be conducted in Slovenia and Spain, as well as for the EU level, ultimately resulting in a comprehensive cross-national comparison of six countries and multilevel study of framing dynamics in the EU.
DFG Programme
Research Grants
International Connection
Netherlands, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA
