This dataset includes network data on comments. Network data is similar to directed dyad-year data except that it only includes directed dyad-years with at least one comment. For every year, there is one node per member state or institution that can submit a comment or notify a proposed technical regulation (only member states). Links can only exist between a third-party member state or institution that can submit a comment and a member state that can notify a technical regulation. There is a link between a third-party member state or institution and a notifying member state if and only if the former submitted at least one comment with respect to a technical regulation notified by the latter. The weight of the edge is the number of comments submitted. There is one observation per third-party member state or institution per notifying member state per year (2002-2020), excluding directed dyad-years where a state was not a member of the Single Market, but only if count of comments is positive.
comments_net
A data frame with 7 variables:
Numeric. An ID number that uniquely identifies each observation in the dataset.
Numeric. The time period, where 1988 is coded 1.
Numeric. An ID number that uniquely identifies each node (a member state or institution) that creates a link.
String. The name of the member state or institution that submitted the opinion to the Commission.
Numeric. An ID number that uniquely identifies each node (a member state) that receives a link.
String. The name of the member state that notified the technical regulation to the Commission.
Numeric. The weight of the edge, which is the number of comments filed against the member state the notified the proposed technical regulation.