Crossroads in European Union Studies
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Crossroads in European Union Studies. / Lynggaard, Kennet; Löfgren, Karl; Manners, Ian James.
Research Methods in European Union Studies. ed. / Kennet Lynggaard; Ian Manners; Karl Löfgren. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. p. 3-17 (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Crossroads in European Union Studies
AU - Lynggaard, Kennet
AU - Löfgren, Karl
AU - Manners, Ian James
PY - 2015/7
Y1 - 2015/7
N2 - Over the past two decades the educational practices within EU studies have been challenged by the lack of comprehensive texts on research strategy, design and method useful for study programmes. Since the ‘comparative turn’ of the 1990s, where we saw a shift towards applying theories, analytical frameworks and research methods known from the study of national political systems, EU studies programs have been faced with two choices when putting together curricula: either to downplay issues of research methodology in the curriculum, or to embark on the troublesome journey of putting together discrete readers of articles and papers from a limited and dispersed scholarly field. The actual practice of EU studies programmes has probably been somewhere in-between. That is, to give a lesser amount of attention to research strategy, design and method through the use of general textbooks combined with, at best, empirical examples derived from actual research projects in EU affairs. Yet, this otherwise pragmatic approach has become increasingly difficult. In this sense EU studies is at a crossroads of the meeting place between many disciplinary interests in Europe, as well as the point in time where the past weaknesses of methodology meet the future challenges of a new research agenda on Europe.
AB - Over the past two decades the educational practices within EU studies have been challenged by the lack of comprehensive texts on research strategy, design and method useful for study programmes. Since the ‘comparative turn’ of the 1990s, where we saw a shift towards applying theories, analytical frameworks and research methods known from the study of national political systems, EU studies programs have been faced with two choices when putting together curricula: either to downplay issues of research methodology in the curriculum, or to embark on the troublesome journey of putting together discrete readers of articles and papers from a limited and dispersed scholarly field. The actual practice of EU studies programmes has probably been somewhere in-between. That is, to give a lesser amount of attention to research strategy, design and method through the use of general textbooks combined with, at best, empirical examples derived from actual research projects in EU affairs. Yet, this otherwise pragmatic approach has become increasingly difficult. In this sense EU studies is at a crossroads of the meeting place between many disciplinary interests in Europe, as well as the point in time where the past weaknesses of methodology meet the future challenges of a new research agenda on Europe.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - European Union studies
KW - research methods
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780230363052
T3 - Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
SP - 3
EP - 17
BT - Research Methods in European Union Studies
A2 - Lynggaard, Kennet
A2 - Manners, Ian
A2 - Löfgren, Karl
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Basingstoke
ER -
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