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US Codebook Revisions and Dataset Updates
20 Aug 2019
The US master codebook has undergone several revisions, and the newest version can be downloaded from the US Project page here. Revised and updated subtopic codes can be found below. Along with existing examples and special notes for each subtopic, short rules were added for ...
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Policy Moods Dataset Updated
15 Jul 2019
Public Policy Mood has been updated through 2018. Dataset can be downloaded on the CAP website here. The Policy Mood Custom Tool and Trends Tool series on the CAP website are now available. Downloads in Excel format are also available from ...
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12th annual Comparative Agendas Project conference!
03 Jul 2019
Last month, the 12th annual Comparative Agendas annual conference in Budapest, Hungary. The conference was a great success thanks to scholars and friends at the Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Congratulations and many thanks to the gracious hosts, ...
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Policy Mood in the Economist!
21 Jun 2019
G. Elliott Morris, a former University of Texas at Austin J.J. Pickle Undergraduate Research Fellow and current data journalist, wrote about Americans' public mood in The Economist. Using public policy mood data, he found that Americans are currently more in favor of "big ...
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CAP in the News: Public Mood
12 Jun 2019
Matt Yglesias wrote for Vox.com about public opinion on policymaking in the US using the CAP public mood dataset. The data were used to show that public support for liberal public policies is at a 60-year high. In the article, he speaks to Dr. Jim Stimson about the history ...
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