| Name | ESR no. | PhD project | Dataset | Description | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gil Thompson | ESR1 | Interviews on EU border control and asylum policy with Frontex and EASO officers | Aggregate data from 28 Interviews on EU border control and asylum policy with Frontex and EASO officers. | open access/CC0 1.0 | |
| Radu-Mihai Triculescu | ESR2 | EU and national documents regulating the granting of asylum | Legal documents defining asylum and bureaucratic practices from the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs ‐ Directorate for Immigration and Integration, the Romanian Parliament, the Dutch Ministry for Security and Justice, the Dutch Inspectorate General of the Ministry for Security and Justice, the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Romanian Ministry for Internal affairs in September 2020 (FOI request). | open access/CC BY 4.0 | |
| Radu-Mihai Triculescu | ESR2 | Harmonised asylum policies in the European Union? The role of street-level bureaucrats in the implementation of the Common European Asylum System | Expert interviews with Dutch bureaucrats and experts in the field of asylum | Interview notes from semi‐structured interviews with Dutch bureaucrats handling asylum cases. | open access/CC BY 4.0 |
| Elena Escalante Brock | ESR3 | State aid cases 2000-2008 | All cases labelled 'negative recovery of aid' from the DG Competition website coded for politicisation and depoliticisation as outlined in the codebook. | open access/CC BY 4.0 | |
| Elena Escalante Brock | ESR3 | The role of actors in the legitimation or delegitimation of MLG structures: A claims-making analysis of the politicisation and depoliticisation of EU state aid policy | The dataset details the frequency of news coverage for each of the state aid cases, the most covered industries (e.g. transport, electricity, steel), and the peaks in news coverage for all state aid cases over time. It does not include the news articles nor the list of articles. The peaks in news coverage details the totality of news coverage for all member states. | open access/CC BY 4.0 | |
| Julien Bois | ESR4 | The uncertain world of the Court of Justice of the European Union: A multidisciplinary approach of the legitimacy of the EU judiciary in the 21st century | Judicial activities and expert networks of judges in the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) | CVs of legal experts who took part in shaping judicial responses to the crisis, annual reports of the CJEU, editorial boards of legal journals. | open access/CC BY 4.0 |
| Julien Bois | ESR4 | The uncertain world of the Court of Justice of the European Union: A multidisciplinary approach of the legitimacy of the EU judiciary in the 21st century | Twitter coverage of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) | Collection of all publicly available tweets (97), retweets (3,819) and likes (6,504) of the tweets on the CJEU’s two official accounts @CourUEPresse (French) and @EUCourtPress (English) in December 2020. | open access/CC BY 4.0 |
| Claire Godet | ESR6 | Understanding the Legitimation of Controversial Institutions: Stakeholder Critique and Legitimation of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) | Interviews with stakeholders on the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) | 13 representatives of the stakeholders involved in the public debate to reform the ETS for its 3rd Phase (2013‐2020) and its 4th Phase (2021‐ 2030), including different types of organisations (NGOs, industrial lobbies, think tanks) with diverging interests (climate protection, economic growth, etc.) in order to cover the diversity of opinions present in the debate. | open access/CC BY 4.0 |
| Ivana Skazlic | ESR7 | Legitimacy of the European Semester: Does Parliamentary Involvement Make a Difference? | European Semester parliamentary activities score: quantitative dataset on European Semester‐related parliamentary debates and the committee level meetings | All available data on parliamentary scrutiny activities at the committee level and in the plenary in 25 EU Member States related to National Reform Programme, Stability/Convergence Programme and Country Specific 34 Recommendations are mapped and coded in the dataset. | open access/CC BY 4.0 |
| Emilija Tudzarovska Gjorgjievska | ESR8 |
New understanding of EU legitimacy and anti-corruption: The role of the representative democracies |
Official documents on the EU, anti‐corruption, parliaments | Documents collecting through systematic searches on official websites of institutions from EU member states and non‐EU member states. | open access/CC BY 4.0 |
| Emilija Tudzarovska Gjorgjievska | ESR8 | New understanding of EU legitimacy and anti-corruption: The role of the representative democracies | Semi‐structured expert interviews on EU, parliaments and anti‐ corruption | Transcripts of semi-structured expert interviews. | open access/CC BY 4.0 |
| Dominika Proszowska | ESR10 | Political trust and multilevel governance: trust differentiation across the local, national and EU level | Dutch public opinion data – European Parliamentary elections 201 | Dutch public opinion data on political trust | open access/CC BY 4.0 |
| Bastiaan Thomas Redert | ESR12 | Between a rock and a hard place: stakeholder involvement as a legitimation strategy in European Union agencies | Consultations organized by European Supervisory Authorities | All (written) consultation calls of the European Supervisory Authorities from 2002 to 2014. | open access/CC BY 4.0 |
| Bastiaan Thomas Redert | ESR12 | Between a rock and a hard place: stakeholder involvement as a legitimation strategy in European Union agencies | Interest groups’ written responses on consultations of the European Supervisory Authorities (2002‐2014) | Interest group responses to ESA consultations. | open access/CC BY 4.0 |
| Bastiaan Thomas Redert | ESR12 | Between a rock and a hard place: stakeholder involvement as a legitimation strategy in European Union agencies | Interviews with agency officials and stakeholder representatives on functioning Stakeholder Groups of the European Supervisory Authorities | Semi‐structured interviews with agency officials and stakeholder representatives on functioning Stakeholder Groups of the ESAs. | open access/CC BY 4.0 |
| José Piquer | ESR13 | Political parties, crisis and economic policy: Parliamentary and political speeches in Britain and Spain (2008‐2014) | This dataset contains the set of speeches that constitutes the basis for the empirical analysis of the governments’ justifications of policy choices during the 2008 economic and financial crisis. | open access/CC BY 4.0 |

