Replication Data for: When politicisation meets ideology: the European Parliament and Free Trade Agreements (doi:10.7910/DVN/MDA5XU)

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Document Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: When politicisation meets ideology: the European Parliament and Free Trade Agreements

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/MDA5XU

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2021-11-08

Version:

1

Bibliographic Citation:

Migliorati, Marta; Vignoli, Valerio, 2021, "Replication Data for: When politicisation meets ideology: the European Parliament and Free Trade Agreements", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MDA5XU, Harvard Dataverse, V1, UNF:6:AVuTiFQup7RHasibUYkGcQ== [fileUNF]

Study Description

Citation

Title:

Replication Data for: When politicisation meets ideology: the European Parliament and Free Trade Agreements

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/MDA5XU

Authoring Entity:

Migliorati, Marta (European University Institute)

Vignoli, Valerio (University of Milan)

Distributor:

Harvard Dataverse

Access Authority:

Vignoli, Valerio

Depositor:

Vignoli, Valerio

Date of Deposit:

2021-10-04

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MDA5XU

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences, European Parliament, Politicisation, Trade agreements, European Union

Abstract:

Since the Lisbon Treaty, the European Parliament (EP) has considerably increased its competencies in European Union (EU) trade policy. At the same time, a “new generation” of Free Trade Agreements (FTA), including the TTIP with the United States, CETA with Canada and the agreement with Japan, have been negotiated by the European Commission. Whereas existing literature has tackled the process of the EP's institutional self-empowerment in this policy area, there is no systematic research investigating the lines of conflict within the EP over FTAs. Through a newly collected dataset of all EP plenary debates between 2009 and 2019 on six relevant FTAs, we extract MEPs preferences by means of a manual textual analysis. We then test the explanatory power of the two traditional lines of cleavages within the EP over MEPs stated preferences: position on the left-right axis and support for EU integration. We find that both these dimensions fundamentally shape the conflict in the EP over FTAs. The impact of these two ideological cleavages is magnified in the context of politicised FTAs, namely the TTIP and CETA. Through these findings, the article significantly contributes to the research on competition in the EP and, more broadly, to the understanding of EU trade policy and its emerging politicisation dynamics.

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<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a>

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Citation

Title:

Migliorati M, Vignoli V (2021). When politicization meets ideology: the European Parliament and free trade agreements. Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 1–16.

Identification Number:

10.1017/ipo.2021.50

Bibliographic Citation:

Migliorati M, Vignoli V (2021). When politicization meets ideology: the European Parliament and free trade agreements. Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 1–16.

File Description--f5210495

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  • Number of cases: 706

  • No. of variables per record: 29

  • Type of File: text/tab-separated-values

Notes:

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Dataset (STATA format) for the replication of tables and figures both in the article and the appendix

Variable Description

List of Variables:

Variables

File_name

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Variable Format: character

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Speaker

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Variable Format: character

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Agreement

f5210495 Location:

Variable Format: character

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Debate

f5210495 Location:

Variable Format: character

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Date

f5210495 Location:

Variable Format: character

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Legislature

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Summary Statistics: Max. 8.0; StDev 0.47544110135060075; Mean 7.655807365439093; Min. 7.0; Valid 706.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Party

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Variable Format: character

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Group

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Variable Format: character

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Country

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Variable Format: character

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Words

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Variable Format: numeric

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? Democratic Accountability Gr=77

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Variable Format: numeric

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? General Negative Gr=153

f5210495 Location:

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Variable Format: numeric

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? General Neutral Gr=33

f5210495 Location:

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Variable Format: numeric

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? General Positive Gr=238

f5210495 Location:

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Variable Format: numeric

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? Issue-specific negative Gr=71

f5210495 Location:

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Variable Format: numeric

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? issue-specific positive Gr=45

f5210495 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 0.17787742899850528; Min. 0.0; StDev 0.5710487593478024; Max. 6.0; Valid 669.0

Variable Format: numeric

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? Market Regulation Gr=219

f5210495 Location:

Summary Statistics: Mean 1.1689088191330326; Valid 669.0; StDev 1.4341396174265648; Min. 0.0; Max. 7.0

Variable Format: numeric

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? Pro Free-Trade Gr=114

f5210495 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 1.2810119279233632; Valid 669.0; Mean 0.6935724962630789; Min. 0.0; Max. 10.0

Variable Format: numeric

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? Protectionism Gr=23

f5210495 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 669.0; Max. 3.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 0.08370702541106119; StDev 0.34457386373654414

Variable Format: numeric

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positive sum

f5210495 Location:

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:4ZBoTnPoy2sT9iP0CBQWvQ==

negative sum

f5210495 Location:

Summary Statistics: StDev 3.130464574921619; Valid 669.0; Max. 19.0; Min. 0.0; Mean 3.3841554559043354

Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:/7Fl0Xnj+3UkqE5wEWLtHw==

FTA_support

f5210495 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 670.0; Mean -0.07937989412187653; Max. 15.254237288135593; Min. -8.91089108910891; StDev 2.5812102539420363;

Variable Format: numeric

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Group_speaker

f5210495 Location:

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:jQPY8Y+FZh2vxzOjrn1X5g==

INTA_Member

f5210495 Location:

Summary Statistics: Valid 706.0; StDev 0.4912592634385325; Max. 1.0; Mean 0.4050991501416431; Min. 0.0

Variable Format: numeric

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:U8hQ9tQRlAHX4/OeWh/wWQ==

EU_Position

f5210495 Location:

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Variable Format: numeric

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Gal_Tan

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:PatxxDJQ/6lL02jZejz/cw==

Delegation

f5210495 Location:

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Variable Format: numeric

Notes: UNF:6:XxglSYHf7fEl/s6JcYWuHw==

Politicization

f5210495 Location:

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Variable Format: numeric

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Other Study-Related Materials

Label:

do.file.do

Text:

Do file (STATA format) for the replication of tables and figures both in the article and the appendix

Notes:

application/x-stata-syntax