Willingness and Capacity for EU Policy Action in Turbulent Times: Conflicts, Positions and Outcomes

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Goran Glavas
• Subject Area: Political Science ; General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: from 2020 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 440484247

• Final Report Year: 2024

Final Report Abstract

By increasing knowledge about the willingness and capacity for European integration in specific policy areas, the EUINACTION project sought to explain and facilitate representative and effective policy reforms. Our interdisciplinary research team analysed public opinion surveys, party manifestos, speech data from the European and national parliaments and EU legislative texts using machine learning. The project findings add to a better understanding of institutional responsiveness to the demands of the public and various stakeholders and inform recommendations for policy and institutional innovations in the EU that have public acceptance to address pressing challenges such as economic, refugee, or security crises.

Publications

• Why EU member states should take heed of the sovereignty concerns of their citizens. EUROPP European Politics and Policy LSE Blog
  Yordanova N., M. Angelova, R. Lehrer, M. Osnabrügge M. & S. Renes
  
• Parties’ increased reliance on online forms of communication may hold serious consequences for both their functioning and their relationship with the public. LSE British Politics and Policy
  Greene, Z. & L. Toner
  
• The public are more likely to comply with COVID-19 measures adopted in countries they believe handled the pandemic better than the UK. LSE Blog
  Ershova A. & S.A. Popa
  
• Why certain lifestyles and interests may have influenced COVID-19 decision-making more than others. LSE British Politics and Policy Blog
  Greene, Z. & M. Luhiste
  
• Don’t Stop Fine-Tuning: On Training Regimes for Few-Shot Cross-Lingual Transfer with Multilingual Language Models. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 10725-10742. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  Schmidt, Fabian David; Vulić, Ivan & Glavaš, Goran
  
• ParlEE plenary speeches data set: Annotated full-text of 21.6 million sentence-level plenary speeches of eight EU states
  Sylvester, Christine; Greene, Zachary & Ebing, Benedikt
  
• SLICER: Sliced Fine-Tuning for Low-Resource Cross-Lingual Transfer for Named Entity Recognition. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 10775-10785. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  Schmidt, Fabian David; Vulić, Ivan & Glavaš, Goran
  
• When the rule of law is at stake, many people support sanctions even against their own state. Leiden Security and Global Affairs Blog. The Hague: Institute of Security and Global Affairs, Leiden University [blog entry]
  Toshkov D.D., Mazepus H., Yordanova N. & Piqani D.
  
• Constraining the European Commission to please the public: responsiveness through delegation choices. Journal of European Public Policy, 31(9), 2775-2799.
  Ershova, Anastasia; Yordanova, Nikoleta & Khokhlova, Aleksandra
  
• ParlEE plenary speeches V2 data set: Annotated full-text of 15.1 million sentence-level plenary speeches of six EU legislative chambers
  Sylvester, Christine; Ershova, Anastasia; Khokhlova, Aleksandra; Yordanova, Nikoleta & Greene, Zachary
  
• ParlEE plenary speeches V3 data set: Annotated full-text of 10 million sentence-level plenary speeches of six EU legislative chambers
  Sylvester, Christine & Greene, Zachary
  
• Tackling Hallucinations in Neural Chart Summarization. Proceedings of the 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference, 414-423. Association for Computational Linguistics.
  Obaid, ul Islam Saad; Škrjanec, Iza; Dusek, Ondrej & Demberg, Vera
  
• Curb EU enthusiasm: how politicisation shapes bureaucratic responsiveness. West European Politics, 48(4), 767-792.
  Yordanova, Nikoleta; Khokhlova, Aleksandra; Ershova, Anastasia; Schmidt, Fabian David & Glavaš, Goran
  
• ParlEE plenary speeches V4 data set: Annotated full-text of 18 million sentence-level plenary speeches of eight European legislative chambers
  Sylvester, Christine; Khokhlova, Aleksandra; Yordanova, Nikoleta & Greene, Zachary