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New Article in BJPS Using CAP Data from Spain, UK, US
17 Dec 2017
A new article published in the British Journal of Political Science from Jim Adams and Luca Bernardi uses CAP data on executive speeches from the United Kingdom, Spain and the United States.  The abstract: Issue ownership theory posits that when social welfare is ...
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U.S. Senators on Twitter: Asymmetric Party Rhetoric in 140 Characters
14 Dec 2017
Annelise Russell, a graduate student at the Universty of Texas at Austin, published an article in American Politics Research on the behavior of Senators on Twitter. The abstract: The U.S. Senate is a party-polarized institution where divisive politicalrhetoric stems from ...
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China Project Begins Coding
13 Nov 2017
The Comparative Agendas Project is excited to hear about the project started by Professor Xiaolei Qin on policy agendas in China. They have begun work on coding the State Council Gazette (1954-2017). Professor Qin was a visiting professor at the University of Texas for the ...
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Article using Italian CAP data was awarded the 2016 Giovanni Sartori prize!
25 Sep 2017
The Giovanni Sartori Prize is awarded annually to the authors of the best paper in the Italian Political Science Review. The 2016 prize went to an article written by Federico Russo and Luca Verzichelli entitled "Government ideology and party priorities: the determinants of ...
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The Implications of Legislative Expediency
28 Jun 2017
Jonathan Lewallen, an assistant professor in political science at the University of Tampa and member of the Comparative Agendas Project community, says that the rush to pass health care legislation in the U.S. may lead to errors. In a Q & A with Vice.com he notes that ...
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