Data Set Information about the data

List of supported file formats

Bibliographic listings: .rtf, .rdf, .csv, .xls, .bib, .ris

Data

  • Textual data: .txt, .cvs, .docx (.doc), .pdf
  • Interviews: .docx (doc), .pdf, .txt, .cvs
  • Quantitative datasets: .xls, .cvs
  • Qualitative datasets: .xls, .cvs, .nvivo, atlas.it, iramuteq
  • Illustrations & media: .JPEG, .PNG, .GIF, .wmv, .MP4, .MP3, .PPT

Working papers: .rtf, .docx (.doc), .page, .pdf, .ppt

General guidelines & naming convention

Data collection by ESRs needs to comply with the « FAIR » principle.

To ensure lisibility:

  • Data is to be uploaded in English (or original language for corpuses)
  • Data is to be made accessible via free or “Office” software
  • For corpuses, data is to be uploaded in .txt format For raw data, .xls or .cvs formats are to be favoured
  • For written documents, .doc formats are to be favored To ensure inter-operability (using data extracted from other databases):
  • The same numbering as the original one is to be used (e.g. CELEX)
  • Complete bibliographical references are to be included

To ensure quality and compatibility of data:

  • Names of countries are to be included using the international nomenclature (e.g. BEL; CAN;…)
  • Code books are to be made available in their entirety incl. inclusion/exclusion rules; an exemple for each node (ref. Invivo); and corpus of texts are to be full

A GEM-STONES’ naming convention has also also agreed upon:

  • For bibliographic listings: First_Author_Family_Name_Year_Full_Document_Title (max 12 words)
  • For data: ESRX_Title_Given_To_Data_Cluster_VX
  • For working papers: First_Author_Family_Name_Year_Full_Document_Title (max 12 words)

Search keywords

Search keywords were collectivelly identified. All GEM-STONES fellows participated in this exercise via the organised GEM-STONES Methods Workshops, online consultations and contributions to the GEM-STONES Data Management Plan.

Keywords related to focus

  • EU Capacities 
  • Institutional Proliferation 
  • Regime Management 
  • System Complexity 

Keywords related to theories

  • Comparative Regionalism 
  • Complexity Theories
  • Critical Realism 
  • Critical Theories 
  • Deliberative Theories 
  • Discursive Institutionalism
  • Foreign Policy Analysis 
  • Global Governance Theory 
  • Global Justice Theory
  • Globalisation Theory 
  • Historical Institutionalism 
  • Legitimation Theories 
  • Market Theory
  • (neo-)Functionalism 
  • Organisational Theory 
  • Peace Studies 
  • Rational Institutionalism 
  • Regional Security Complexes
  • Socialisation Theory 
  • Sociological Institutionalism 
  • Transition Theory 
  • Theories of Democracy 
  • Theories of (Regional) Integration
  • Varieties of Capitalism 

Keywords related to case studies

  • Africa
  • Area of Freedom Security and Justice
  • ASEAN
  • Central Asia
  • Central Europe
  • Common Agricultural Policy 
  • Common Commercial Policy 
  • Common Foreign and Security Policy
  • East Asia
  • Eastern Europe 
  • ECOWAS
  • European Border Controls 
  • European Courts of Justice 
  • European External Action 
  • European External Action Service 
  • European Financial Market 
  • European Neighbourhood Policy
  • European Single Market 
  • European Union 
  • Global Trade Regime 
  • Latin America
  • MERCOSUR
  • Middle East 
  • Regulatory Agreements 
  • South Asia 
  • Transnational Regulatory Bodies
  • UNASUR 
  • United Nations 
  • World Trade Organisation 

Keywords related to themes

  • Criminal Law 
  • Crisis Management
  • Democracy/Democratization
  • Disaster Management 
  • Distributive Justice 
  • Expert Networks 
  • Financial Regulation 
  • Food Security 
  • Hard Law
  • Hybrid Regimes
  • Innovation 
  • Inter-organizational 
  • International Security 
  • Inter-regionalism 
  • Inter-sectoral 
  • Knowledge Transfer 
  • Legal Cooperation 
  • Migration Policies 
  • Multilateralism 
  • Non-governmental actors
  • Normative Congestion 
  • Peace-Keeping 
  • Peace-Keeping / -Building 
  • Preferential Trade Agreements
  • Reasoned Consensus
  • Regulatory Diffusion 
  • Responsibility-to-protect 
  • Soft Law 
  • Sustainability
  • Terrorism 
  • Trade Law  
  • Trade Policy 
  • Transnational 
  • Treaty on the European Union 
  • Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union 

Keywords drawn from the methodological textbook

  • Abductive reasoning 
  • Archival research
  • Automated text analysis
  • Bias
  • Big data
  • Case selection
  • Case study 
  • Causation
  • Comparative Analysis
  • Concept construction
  • Content analysis
  • Contextual analysis
  • Counter-factual analysis
  • Critical realism
  • Descriptive approaches
  • Determinism / previsionism / probabilism
  • Discourse analysis
  • Epistemological realism 
  • Epistemology
  • Ethics in research
  • Experimentation
  • Explanatory approaches
  • Falsification
  • Focus group
  • Formal modeling
  • Grand theory 
  • Hypothesis
  • Interdisciplinarity 
  • Interpretive approaches
  • Interview techniques
  • Level of analysis
  • Literature review
  • Longitudinal studies
  • Middle range theory
  • Mixed methods
  • Multi-causality 
  • Multiple correspondence analysis 
  • Neuroscience techniques
  • Ontology
  • Operationalization
  • Paradigm
  • Participatory observation
  • Positivism
  • Post-positivism
  • Process tracing
  • Qualitative comparative analysis
  • Regression analysis
  • Research program
  • Research questions
  • Sampling techniques
  • Sequence analysis
  • Social network analysis
  • Sources
  • Survey research
  • System analysis
  • Triangulation
  • Typology
  • Variables

Keywords drawn from the GEM-STONES' MW Concept Sessions

  • Capability 
  • Centrality
  • Civil Society 
  • Complexity 
  • Conflict (resolution) 
  • Cooperation 
  • Diffusion 
  • Discourse 
  • Efficiency 
  • European 
  • Externalisation
  • Fragmentation 
  • Framing 
  • Governance 
  • Institutional design 
  • Institutionalization 
  • Institutions 
  • Integration 
  • Interest 
  • Intergovernmentalism
  • Leadership 
  • Legalization 
  • Legislation 
  • Legitimation
  • Linkages 
  • Multilateralism 
  • Network 
  • Non-state actors 
  • Norm 
  • Organizations 
  • Paradigm  
  • Participation 
  • Particularism
  • Pluralism 
  • Policy coherence 
  • Power 
  • Proliferation 
  • Rationality 
  • Regime 
  • Regime complexes 
  • Regionalism 
  • Regulation 
  • Relations 
  • Resources 
  • Rule 
  • Supranationalism
  • Structure 
  • System 
  • Theory 
  • Transnational 
  • Universalism