Corrigendum
| Date | 01 September 2019 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1465116519848177 |
| Published date | 01 September 2019 |
| Subject Matter | Corrigendum |
Corrigendum
Corrigendum
Grech P (2017) Undesired properties of the European Commission’s refugee
distribution key. European Union Politics 18(2): 212–238. DOI:10.1177/
1465116516649244.
The author is grateful to Prof. Silvia Angeloni for pointing out an incorrect param-
eter setting in columns L and AC in the accompanying spreadsheet. This changes
some numerical values in the discussion as indicated here. As a consequence, the
undesired properties reported in the main article become even more pronounced.
Corrected discussion of the data analysis (p. 224) is affected as
follows (changes shaded):
For the sake of a general illustration, I assume now that N¼32. This is in line with
the example given by the European Commission (2015b: 11) and corresponds to
Scenario 3 from the section on the legal basis of the distribution key.
Table 1 offers substantive illustration of the two undesired properties. The last
column shows the relative comparison of the total share liand the base share lbase;i
considered in Undesired Property 1. The most striking examples of the paradoxical
shifts are the following:
•Germany’s total share is 2.84% lower than its base share. Both its unemploy-
ment rate and its number of asylum applications per capita in the past five years
are, however, lower than those of Belgium, Hungary, Sweden, Austria,
Denmark, Cyprus, Luxemburg, and Malta. All of these states have a final
share which is higher than their base share, with the exception of Sweden
whose decrease is though lower than that of Germany and is due to its excep-
tionally low pure asylum effect.
•France’s total share is even 3.74% lower than its base share. Both its unemploy-
ment rate and its number of asylum applications per capita in the past five years
are, however, lower than those of Cyprus which receives a total share which is
6.21% higher than its base share.
•TheUK’stotalshareiseven1.68%lower than its base share. Both its unemploy-
ment rate and its number of asylum applications per capita in the past five years
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