The politics of framing in the European Union: the role of national interest groups

在欧盟的政策制定中，哪些框架开始占据主导地位？回答这个问题对于利益集团和政策学生，以及对欧洲一体化的理性主义者和建构主义者来说都很重要。该项目描绘并解释了欧盟多层次体系中的框架政治，重点关注国家层面和欧盟层面框架进程之间的相互作用。它将与八个欧洲国家和美国的合作伙伴密切合作，在一个更大的ESF/欧洲合作研究项目中进行，该项目调查政策信息在120项欧盟政策提案的影响产生过程中的作用。德国的研究重点是德国、瑞典、英国和荷兰利益集团的创业框架，其基础是对政策制定者和利益集团的采访，对20个欧盟政策问题的文件的内容分析，以及针对选定的5-6个问题子集的案例研究方法。将在斯洛文尼亚和西班牙以及欧盟一级进行平行的框架研究，最终对六个国家进行全面的跨国家比较，并对欧盟的框架动态进行多层次研究。

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.