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The Danish dataset contains the content of all parliamentary activities in the Danish parliament: accounts, bills, interpellations, motions, question hour, the opening speech of the Prime Minister, the closing speech of the Prime Minister, and party manifestos. The dataset extends back to 1953, where an amendment to the constitution changed the Danish political system. The dataset has recently been updated to 2017.

A content coding of the media agenda (1984-2003) is also part of the data set. However, this dataset was coded according to a more aggregated version of the policy agenda setting coding scheme. The coding system used can be cross-walked to the other datasets at the main topic level.

The project was founded in 2003 by Christoffer Green-Pedersen and has received funding from the Danish Social Science Research Council and the Research Foundation at Aarhus University. Recently, a new project by Peter Bjerre Mortensen (PI) has been launched on “The Causes and Consequences of Comparative Agenda Setting” (CAPCAS), that collects agendas from the councils as wells as committees of all 98 Danish municipalities 2007-2017. This project investigates why societal problems gain or lose attention on the political agenda and how this agenda-setting process matters for policy decisions.

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 Bjerre Mortensen with support from the Danish Social Science Research Council and the Research Foundation at Aarhus University".

Principal Investigator: Christoffer Green-Pedersen (cgp@ps.au.dk) and Peter Bjerre Mortensen (peter@ps.au.dk)
Location: Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark
Email: cgp@ps.au.dk
Downloadable Data Series: 10
Time Span: 1953-2016
Total Observations: 220,612

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The project was founded in 2003 by Christoffer Green-Pedersen and has received funding from the Danish Social Science Research Council and the Research Foundation at Aarhus University. 

Denmark