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The Swiss Policy Agendas team includes Roy Gava, Pascal Sciarini and Frédéric Varone at the University of Geneva and Anke Tresch at the University of Lausanne.
Principal Investigator: Pascal Sciarini and Frédéric Varone
Location: University of Geneva
Downloadable Data Series:
4
Time Span:
1848-2014
Total Observations:
13,872
Sponsoring Institutions
The following CAP related projects were funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation:
- Party strategies and the dynamics of electoral competition in multiparty democracies
- Re-parliamentarization? A quantitative assessment of the Swiss Parliament's legislative function
- Lobbying, litigation and direct democracy: Comparing advocacy strategies of interest groups in Switzerland and California
- The mediatization of political decision-making in Switzerland
- The Politics of Attention: West European politics in times of change
Swiss Policy Agendas
Featured Research:The Relationship between Media and Political Agendas
Previous studies have demonstrated that the extent to which media coverage influences the issue priorities of policy makers is contingent on the type of issue, media, and political agenda. This article contends that the relationship between media and political agendas varies across the phases of the decision-making process. Based on a comprehensive dataset on issue attention in media coverage and various policy-making channels covering the years 1996–2003, the...
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