Opening the Black Box of EU Digital Sovereignty: A Macro‐Level Analysis of the Concept's Development
通过分析156篇学术文章和808份欧盟政策文件，使用主题建模方法，揭示了数字主权概念从2013年到2016年从技术概念演变为综合政策框架的过程，对研究欧盟治理和数字政策的学者有参考价值。
ABSTRACT Digital sovereignty has emerged as a central organizing principle in European Union governance, yet systematic understanding of its conceptual evolution remains limited. This article provides the first macro‐level analysis of how digital sovereignty evolves across institutional and academic domains. Through analysis of 156 academic articles and 808 EU policy documents using Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic modeling, we reveal sophisticated patterns in institutional conceptualization and evolution of digital sovereignty. Our findings demonstrate that its development reflects complex adaptive processes rather than linear policy progression. We identify a significant shift in institutional discourse from 2013 to 2016, where digital sovereignty transitions from a narrow technical concept to a comprehensive policy framework. This conceptual flexibility enhances rather than inhibits digital sovereignty development. The study advances understanding of how institutions construct and deploy new governance concepts in response to technological change while revealing previously obscured patterns in institutional interconnection.