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Research Design

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This chapter provides the research design of Drahn’s qualitative comparison of the transposition of four EU directives in the policy area of Business and Human Rights (BHR) regulation. Drahn puts forward a novel approach to the analysis of directive transpositions by measuring the degree to which European Union (EU) member states transposed mandatory and non-mandatory clauses in EU directives. This results in a human rights score, which serves as an indicator for member states’ policy commitment. The chapter outlines the methodological approach, explains the selection of cases and directives and operationalizes the six independent variables and the dependent variable.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The term ‘pluri-theoretical approach’ was adopted from Falkner et al. (2005).

  2. 2.

    Operationalization is defined as “the process through which (abstract) concepts are translated into (measurable) variables” (Harvey, 2013).

  3. 3.

    For a detailed description of this typology, see Sect. 3.2.2.

  4. 4.

    This category is not equivalent to ‘gold plating’. As was explained in Sect. 3.4.2, gold-plating also refers to the adoption of requirements that have no direct connection to the directive.

  5. 5.

    (The scales in Fig. 4.3 and in Fig. 4.4 are schematic depictions of the categories and do not represent the mathematical proportions)

  6. 6.

    In this study I use the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey of July 2015 (Version 2015.1).

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  1. Jean Monnet Chair—Department of Political Science and European Affairs, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

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Drahn, P. (2020). Research Design. In: Adoption of EU Business and Human Rights Policy. Contributions to Political Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46935-1_4

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