name Country name

ccode Country code

year Year

cases number of cases (count data)

lmisery standard misery index

lcomp government composition, lagged one year (when the year is 1990, the data is 1989 – this

applies throughout the data set for all variables labled “lagged”)

ltimemem Lagged length of membership

lpeuexp lagged % of EU export totals

lpeugnp lagged % of EU GNP

fgnpcap GNP per capita, in thousands

lexpgnp lagged ratio of eports to GNP

dlcent Centralisation of government (supplanted by the regionalized score; from polity

III)

llcases lagged, logged cases

regional autonomy regional autonomy index from Hooghe and Marks 2001

Bureaucracy Bureaucratic efficiency

Veto pts veto points (george tsebelis)

meshed regions How well the regions are represented as regions in their federal

government

regions in EU How well the regions are represented as regions in the EU government

index an index of these two factors

Ukd UK dummy

irelandd Ireland dummy

nethd Netherlands dummy

belgiumd dummy

franced dummy

spaind dummy

portd dummy

germanyd dummy

italyd dummy

greeced dummy

QMV dummy of QMV use

vweight voting strength in the Council

demo Satisfaction with bureaucracy (Eurobarometer)

ec_mem Satisfaction with EC membership (Eurob.)

corporatism corporatism (Siaroff)

creceipts Central government receipts (lagged)