This collection sets a new agenda for conducting research on the EU and learns from past mistakes. In doing so it provides a state-of-the-art examination of social science research designs in EU studies while providing innovative guidelines for the advancement of more inclusive and empirically sensitive research designs in EU studies

Magnus Blomgren, Umeå University, Sweden Angela Bourne, University of Roskilde, Denmark Sevasti Chatzopoulou, Roskilde University, Denmark Laura Cram, University of Edinburgh, UK Amandine Crespy, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Theofanis Exadaktylos, University of Surrey, UK Sara Hagemann, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK Ann-Christina L. Knudsen, Aarhus University, Denmark Annica Kronsell, Lund University, Sweden Jenny Lewis, University of Melbourne, Australia Martino Maggetti, University of Zürich, Switzerland and University of Lausanne, Switzerland Julie Hassing Nielsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Stratos Patrikios, University of Strathclyde, UK Sebastiaan Princen, Urecht University the Netherlands Claudio Radaelli, University of Exeter, UK Ben Rosamond, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Michael Strange, Malmö University, Sweden Alex Warleigh-Lack, University of Surrey, UK