Forum Section The Study of EU Public Policy

Fabio Franchino (1)

1 UCL - University College of London [London]

This note reports the results of a survey of all the articles on EU policies published since 1994 in three major journals. It makes four recommendations. We should probably invest more research time on (1) established policy areas that are at the core of the Union, (2) the study of policy adjudication and the role of courts in the EU policy process, (3) confirmatory theory-testing research and (4) strategies that increase the number of observations, in order to make more use of statistical estimation techniques.

Mots clés: case study; confirmatory research; EU policies; exploratory research; methodology; policy process; quantitative methods

Fabio Franchino. Forum Section The Study of EU Public Policy. European Union Politics, 2005, 6 (2), pp.243-252. ⟨10.1177/1465116505051985⟩. ⟨hal-00571711⟩