How to cite

We encourage the free, attributed use of the data collected as part of the Comparative Agendas Project for publications, instructional use, policy analysis, and other non-commercial purposes.

The use of all Comparative Agendas Project individual datasets and codebooks should be cited in a note, according to the following for each project.

Belgium

“The Belgian data for the period of 1988-2011 were collected by Stefaan Walgrave and his collaborators (Jeroen Joly, Anne Hardy, Brandon Zicha, Julie Sevenans, and Tobias Van Assche). Funding came from the European Science Foundation (grant number: 07-ECRP-008), from the Flemish National Science Foundation (grant number: G.0117.11N) and from the Belgian Federal Science Policy (grant number: IUAP P7/46). The Belgian data for the period of 2011-2024 were collected by Stefaan Walgrave and Yannick Léonard. The Funding was provided by the TOP BOF University of Antwerp Grant (grant number FFB210426). The original collectors of the data do not bear any responsibility for the analysis reported here.” 

Brazil

The data was originally collected by Ana Cláudia Niedhardt Capella and Felipe Gonçalves Brasil with the collaboration of undergraduate students from Sao Paulo State University (UNESP) and graduate students from Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar).

How to cite: "Capella and Brasil. "Dataset name". The Brazilian Policy Agendas Project, 2019. https://www.comparativeagendas.net/brazil. Accessed "date"." Neither these public institutions nor the original collectors of the data bear any responsibility for the analysis reported here.

Denmark

When using the data, please add the following citation: “The data in the Danish Policy Agenda Project have been collected by Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Peter B. Mortensen with support from the Danish Social Science Research Council and the Research Foundation at Aarhus University."

European Union

Petya Alexandrova, Marcello Carammia, Sebastiaan Princen and Arco Timmermans. (2014). Measuring the European Council Agenda: Introducing a New Approach and Dataset. European Union Politics 15 (1): 152-167.

Germany

When using the data, please add the following citation:Christian Breunig and Tinette Schnatterer. 2018.  German Policy Agendas - Data Set and Descriptive Insights. Working paper - University of Konstanz.

The party manifestos data was coded by Christoffer Green-Pedersen and Isabelle Guinaudeau. When using the German manifesto data, please add the following citation: Isabelle Guinaudeau. 2015. Documentation on the Coding of German Manifestos. Unpublished - Sciences Po Bordeaux.

Switzerland

"The data used here were originally collected by Roy Gava, Pascal Sciarini, Anke Tresch and Frédéric Varone, with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant number 105511-119245/1 and project ‘The Mediatization of Political Decision Making’ sponsored as part of the National Center of Competence in Research ‘Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century’). Neither SNSF nor the original collectors of the data bear any responsibility for the analysis reported here."

Spain

The data was originally collected by Laura Chaqués-Bonafont, Anna M. Palau and Luz M. Muñoz, with the collaboration of graduate students and the financial support of the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Science and the Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR). Neither these public institutions nor the original collectors of the data bear any responsibility for the analysis reported here.

United Kingdom

John, Peter, Anthony Bertelli, Will Jennings, and Shaun Bevan. (2013). Policy Agendas in British Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillian.

United States

Please refer to the respective dataset for its citation.

For the master topic codebook, please use the following citation:

Jones, Bryan D., Frank R. Baumgartner, Sean M. Theriault, Derek A. Epp, Cheyenne Lee, Miranda E. Sullivan. 2023. Policy Agendas Project: Codebook.