Petya Alexandrova
Biographic Data
| ID | 4272567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Petya Alexandrova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Petya |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexandrova |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDROVA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz University Hannover |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Involvement of Asian Actors in the European Commission’s Online Consultations in Comparative Perspective
In order to examine the involvement of Asian interests in European Union politics, we develop a preliminary framework for studying the involvement of external interests in EU policy -making. Using data on the online consultations of the European Commission from 2001 till 2010, we aim at explaining both the level of engagement, the types of active actors and policy areas of involvement of different regions. We find that that external representatio…
Four Galore? The Overlap between Mary Douglas's Grid-Group Typology and Other Highly Cited Social Science Classifications
Recently, neuroscientists have argued that elementary ways of organizing, perceiving, and justifying social relations lurk behind the diversity of social life. In developing grid-group typology, anthropologist Mary Douglas proposed such universal forms. If these are universal, then we could expect other widely cited classifications to overlap with grid-group typology. We tested this expectation by examining to which extent the elements of Douglas…
Institutional issue proclivity in the EU
Macropolitical institutional venues deal with a large scope of policy areas but, due to cognitive and institutional constraints, process information serially. Therefore, they can be expected to demonstrate issue proclivity – long-term specialization in a narrow set of topics. In the European Union (EU), the European Council and the Commission form a dual executive. Their distinctively different functional roles imply differences in institutional …
Configuración de la Agenda en la Unión Europea
El establecimiento de la agenda es un proceso selectivo en el que los asuntos ganan la atención de los formuladores de políticas (policy-makers) y se les atribuye prioridad. Dentro del contexto de la UE se han aplicado dos grandes marcos teóricos para estudiar este proceso —uno basado en la elección racional y otro en la racionalidad limitada—. La investigación en el primer ámbito se ha centrado en los actores y el poder de configuración de la ag…
Explaining political attention allocation with the help of issue character
Policy issues compete for the attention of political actors, and the size of the agenda an issue can occupy is largely determined by the way in which it is defined. This logic constitutes a simple agenda-setting model in which factors related to the participants in the policy process and their context influence the attention a single issue receives after being problematised. In order to be able to apply this model to the construction of a whole a…
Agenda responsiveness in the European Council
The existence of political responsiveness in multi-level systems like the EU remains an open question despite significant recent research on the topic. This article studies whether the European Council responds to the shifting policy priorities of European citizens. More specifically, it explores the synchronic and diachronic associations between what people consider to be the most important problems and the political attention devoted to these i…
Upsetting the agenda
Focusing events are sudden, striking large-scale occurrences that attract political attention. However, not all potential focusing events appear on the agenda. Combining data from multiple sources, this study conducts an analysis of the determinants of prioritisation of external focusing events in the European Council over a period longer than two decades. The results demonstrate that decisions regarding the placement of crises on the agenda are …
Measuring the European Council agenda
This article introduces a novel dataset on the agenda of the European Council, the most powerful political body and core informal agenda setter of the EU. Using the approach taken by the Comparative Agendas Project, we trace political issue attention over a 38-year period (1975–2012). The insights in the agenda-setting processes within the European Council shed more light on the overall agenda of the EU and its temporal dynamics. This article exp…
Policy Punctuations and Issue Diversity on the European Council Agenda
The European Council is the highest political body of the European Union and the main venue for setting the agenda on high politics. Using a new dataset of all content‐coded European Council Conclusions issued between 1975 and 2010, we analyze the policy agenda of the European Council and test hypotheses on agenda change and diversity over time. We find that the theory of punctuated equilibrium applies to the agenda of the European Council, which…
National interest versus the common good
The E uropean C ouncil is an institution which brings together the Heads of State, or Governments of the E uropean U nion ( EU ) Member States. For the Presidency, preparing the agenda of E uropean C ouncil meetings involves a tension between loyalties. Existing research is divided over the question whether the Presidency pushes its domestic policy agenda on the EU level. Using empirical data on the Conclusions of E uropean C ouncil meetings, and…
Foreign Interests Lobbying Brussels
Using data on contributions to European Commission online consultations from 2001 to 2010, this article examines the level and character of engagement of foreign states in preparation of EU policy. The results show that regional differences in the overall participation of foreign actors are cancelled out when controlling for different demand‐ and supply‐side factors of regional representation. A country's volume of EU trade, level of development …
Policy Punctuations and Issue Diversity on the European Council Agenda
The European Council is the highest political body of the European Union and the main venue for setting the agenda on high politics. Using a new dataset of all content‐coded European Council Conclusions issued between 1975 and 2010, we analyze the policy agenda of the European Council and test hypotheses on agenda change and diversity over time. We find that the theory of punctuated equilibrium applies to the agenda of the European Council, which…
Agenda responsiveness in the European Council
The existence of political responsiveness in multi-level systems like the EU remains an open question despite significant recent research on the topic. This article studies whether the European Council responds to the shifting policy priorities of European citizens. More specifically, it explores the synchronic and diachronic associations between what people consider to be the most important problems and the political attention devoted to these i…
Measuring the European Council agenda
This article introduces a novel dataset on the agenda of the European Council, the most powerful political body and core informal agenda setter of the EU. Using the approach taken by the Comparative Agendas Project, we trace political issue attention over a 38-year period (1975–2012). The insights in the agenda-setting processes within the European Council shed more light on the overall agenda of the EU and its temporal dynamics. This article exp…
Foreign Interests Lobbying Brussels
Using data on contributions to European Commission online consultations from 2001 to 2010, this article examines the level and character of engagement of foreign states in preparation of EU policy. The results show that regional differences in the overall participation of foreign actors are cancelled out when controlling for different demand‐ and supply‐side factors of regional representation. A country's volume of EU trade, level of development …
National interest versus the common good
The E uropean C ouncil is an institution which brings together the Heads of State, or Governments of the E uropean U nion ( EU ) Member States. For the Presidency, preparing the agenda of E uropean C ouncil meetings involves a tension between loyalties. Existing research is divided over the question whether the Presidency pushes its domestic policy agenda on the EU level. Using empirical data on the Conclusions of E uropean C ouncil meetings, and…
Upsetting the agenda
Focusing events are sudden, striking large-scale occurrences that attract political attention. However, not all potential focusing events appear on the agenda. Combining data from multiple sources, this study conducts an analysis of the determinants of prioritisation of external focusing events in the European Council over a period longer than two decades. The results demonstrate that decisions regarding the placement of crises on the agenda are …
Institutional issue proclivity in the EU
Macropolitical institutional venues deal with a large scope of policy areas but, due to cognitive and institutional constraints, process information serially. Therefore, they can be expected to demonstrate issue proclivity – long-term specialization in a narrow set of topics. In the European Union (EU), the European Council and the Commission form a dual executive. Their distinctively different functional roles imply differences in institutional …
Four Galore? The Overlap between Mary Douglas's Grid-Group Typology and Other Highly Cited Social Science Classifications
Recently, neuroscientists have argued that elementary ways of organizing, perceiving, and justifying social relations lurk behind the diversity of social life. In developing grid-group typology, anthropologist Mary Douglas proposed such universal forms. If these are universal, then we could expect other widely cited classifications to overlap with grid-group typology. We tested this expectation by examining to which extent the elements of Douglas…
Explaining political attention allocation with the help of issue character
Policy issues compete for the attention of political actors, and the size of the agenda an issue can occupy is largely determined by the way in which it is defined. This logic constitutes a simple agenda-setting model in which factors related to the participants in the policy process and their context influence the attention a single issue receives after being problematised. In order to be able to apply this model to the construction of a whole a…
Policy Punctuations and Issue Diversity on the European Council Agenda
The European Council is the highest political body of the European Union and the main venue for setting the agenda on high politics. Using a new dataset of all content‐coded European Council Conclusions issued between 1975 and 2010, we analyze the policy agenda of the European Council and test hypotheses on agenda change and diversity over time. We find that the theory of punctuated equilibrium applies to the agenda of the European Council, which…
National interest versus the common good
The E uropean C ouncil is an institution which brings together the Heads of State, or Governments of the E uropean U nion ( EU ) Member States. For the Presidency, preparing the agenda of E uropean C ouncil meetings involves a tension between loyalties. Existing research is divided over the question whether the Presidency pushes its domestic policy agenda on the EU level. Using empirical data on the Conclusions of E uropean C ouncil meetings, and…
Foreign Interests Lobbying Brussels
Using data on contributions to European Commission online consultations from 2001 to 2010, this article examines the level and character of engagement of foreign states in preparation of EU policy. The results show that regional differences in the overall participation of foreign actors are cancelled out when controlling for different demand‐ and supply‐side factors of regional representation. A country's volume of EU trade, level of development …
Measuring the European Council agenda
This article introduces a novel dataset on the agenda of the European Council, the most powerful political body and core informal agenda setter of the EU. Using the approach taken by the Comparative Agendas Project, we trace political issue attention over a 38-year period (1975–2012). The insights in the agenda-setting processes within the European Council shed more light on the overall agenda of the EU and its temporal dynamics. This article exp…
Agenda responsiveness in the European Council
The existence of political responsiveness in multi-level systems like the EU remains an open question despite significant recent research on the topic. This article studies whether the European Council responds to the shifting policy priorities of European citizens. More specifically, it explores the synchronic and diachronic associations between what people consider to be the most important problems and the political attention devoted to these i…
Upsetting the agenda
Focusing events are sudden, striking large-scale occurrences that attract political attention. However, not all potential focusing events appear on the agenda. Combining data from multiple sources, this study conducts an analysis of the determinants of prioritisation of external focusing events in the European Council over a period longer than two decades. The results demonstrate that decisions regarding the placement of crises on the agenda are …
Configuración de la Agenda en la Unión Europea
El establecimiento de la agenda es un proceso selectivo en el que los asuntos ganan la atención de los formuladores de políticas (policy-makers) y se les atribuye prioridad. Dentro del contexto de la UE se han aplicado dos grandes marcos teóricos para estudiar este proceso —uno basado en la elección racional y otro en la racionalidad limitada—. La investigación en el primer ámbito se ha centrado en los actores y el poder de configuración de la ag…
Explaining political attention allocation with the help of issue character
Policy issues compete for the attention of political actors, and the size of the agenda an issue can occupy is largely determined by the way in which it is defined. This logic constitutes a simple agenda-setting model in which factors related to the participants in the policy process and their context influence the attention a single issue receives after being problematised. In order to be able to apply this model to the construction of a whole a…
Institutional issue proclivity in the EU
Macropolitical institutional venues deal with a large scope of policy areas but, due to cognitive and institutional constraints, process information serially. Therefore, they can be expected to demonstrate issue proclivity – long-term specialization in a narrow set of topics. In the European Union (EU), the European Council and the Commission form a dual executive. Their distinctively different functional roles imply differences in institutional …
Four Galore? The Overlap between Mary Douglas's Grid-Group Typology and Other Highly Cited Social Science Classifications
Recently, neuroscientists have argued that elementary ways of organizing, perceiving, and justifying social relations lurk behind the diversity of social life. In developing grid-group typology, anthropologist Mary Douglas proposed such universal forms. If these are universal, then we could expect other widely cited classifications to overlap with grid-group typology. We tested this expectation by examining to which extent the elements of Douglas…
Involvement of Asian Actors in the European Commission’s Online Consultations in Comparative Perspective
In order to examine the involvement of Asian interests in European Union politics, we develop a preliminary framework for studying the involvement of external interests in EU policy -making. Using data on the online consultations of the European Commission from 2001 till 2010, we aim at explaining both the level of engagement, the types of active actors and policy areas of involvement of different regions. We find that that external representatio…
Political science (10 works) · European union (9 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · International trade (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works)