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

哪些框架将主导欧盟的政策制定？回答这个问题对利益集团和政策专业的学生以及对欧洲一体化的理性主义和建构主义解释都很重要。该项目绘制并解释了欧盟多层次体系中的框架政治，重点是国家层面和欧盟层面框架过程之间的相互作用。它将与8个欧洲国家和美国的伙伴密切合作，在一个更大的环境稳定论坛/欧洲合作研究项目范围内进行，该项目将调查政策信息在120项欧盟政策建议的影响产生过程中的作用。德国的研究重点是德国、瑞典、英国和荷兰的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访谈，对20个欧盟政策问题的文件进行内容分析，并对5-6个问题的选定子集进行案例研究方法。将在斯洛文尼亚和西班牙以及欧盟层面进行平行框架研究，最终形成六个国家的全面跨国比较和欧盟框架动态的多层次研究。

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.