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Measuring the “Europeanization” of Austrian Law-Making: Legal and Contextual Factors

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In this chapter we subject Austrian legislation to two different approaches of measuring the extent of Europeanization. We begin by outlining the political and legal framework of legal Europeanization in Austria. Next, we address the Europeanization of lawmaking, that is, the impact of EU membership on the national laws passed immediately before and since Austria’s accession. We show the degree of Europeanization of Austrian legislation as identified by (1) manual coding and (2) by automatic coding with a keyword approach. We show how the keyword measure fares when interpreted as a substitute for the former.

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  1. University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Marcelo Jenny & Wolfgang C. Müller

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  1. Centre Emile Durkheim, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, 33405, France

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Jenny, M., Müller, W.C. (2012). Measuring the “Europeanization” of Austrian Law-Making: Legal and Contextual Factors. In: Brouard, S., Costa, O., König, T. (eds) The Europeanization of Domestic Legislatures. Studies in Public Choice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1502-2_3

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