29,982 proposals for European Union policy from 1958 to 2021 and their outcomes are documented in this dataset. Created by Jonathan Golub, EUPROPS v2.0 corrects inconsistencies in earlier EU databases through archival research and manual coding, providing a systematic record for Europe's first six decades of integration.
Use Cases
- Analyzing long-term trends in EU policy-making based on the 1958-2021 time range
- Studying the success rates of policy proposals based on their documented outcomes
- Comparing policymaking consistency between early and later periods of European integration
Strengths
- Covers 29,982 policy proposals spanning 63 years from 1958 to 2021
- Addresses inconsistencies in earlier EU databases through archival research and manual coding
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the archival sources used
Provenance
- Source
- Harvard Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Archival research and manual coding of EU databases
- Time Range
- 1958 to 2021
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-12 09:03:16
- Geography
- European Union