Who Is Afraid of Cumulative Research?: Improving Data on EU Politics.

The article focuses on the study of European Union politics. It states that the cumulation of knowledge in the study of the politics of European Union depends on the expansion of the amount of public systematic data. It also describes the data available across a broad range of research communities and explores the effective means of disseminating information related to such data. Furthermore, it discusses the impact of the lack of data sets necessary for testing competing models on the empirical work of the research community.