CODEBOOK for the social policy transposition dataset

case number – consecutive case number 
timelab	 - label for the time period in semesters 
Acts – number of acts transposed in the semester
Country – categorical variable for the country	
CZ – Czech Republic dummy	
E – Estonia dummy	
LI – Lithuania dummy	
LA – Latvia dummy	
HU – Hungary dummy	
PL – Poland dummy
SVN – Slovenia dummy	
SK – Slovakia dummy	
COAL	- government score for number of coalition partners
EUP – government score for support for European integration (Chapel Hill 2002)	
EMP – government score for support for EU social policy	(Chapel Hill 2002)
LR – government score for L/R position (Chapel Hill 2002)	
GAL – government score for GAL/TAN position (Chapel Hill 2002)	
EFF – country score for government effectiveness (World Bank Governance Indicators)
PRS – pressure: backlog of directives yet to be transposed divided by the number of semesters remaining until the deadline
unemp – country unemployment level (Eurstat)