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  • 3 - Design of the Study

  • from Part I - The Refugee Crisis in the EU and Its Member States: Our Approach in Context
  • Hanspeter Kriesi, European University Institute, Florence, Argyrios Altiparmakis, European University Institute, Florence, Ábel Bojár, 21 Research Center, Budapest, Ioana-Elena Oană, European University Institute, Florence
  • Book:
    Coming to Terms with the European Refugee Crisis
    Published online:
    04 February 2024
    Print publication:
    08 February 2024, pp 40-61
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    In this chapter, we describe the main elements of our empirical design for studying the refugee crisis. In the first part of the chapter, we describe our case selection, which involves two steps. In the first step, we classify EU member states into five main types: frontline, transit, open destination, closed destination, and bystander states. In the second step, within selected countries, but also at the EU level, we study the crisis by breaking it down into key policymaking episodes. The policymaking episodes we have chosen involve legislative acts as well as administrative decisions and novel practices by state institutions. In the second part of the chapter, we expand upon the empirical approaches we employ for studying the crisis. Our book draws upon a variety of original datasets involving various methods of data collection. While many of these are mixed throughout the book, the central dataset we rely on uses policy process analysis (PPA), an original method for capturing the policymaking and politics surrounding policy debates using media data, which we describe more thoroughly in this chapter.