Comparative Agendas

Research

Party Manifestos,Opposition and Media as Determinants of the Cabinet Agenda

Borghetto E and Belchior AM (2019, onlinefirst) Party Manifestos, Opposition and Media as Determinants of the Cabinet Agenda. Political Studies. Cabinets are the engine of policy change in parliamentary systems. Yet, we still know little about how cabinets micro-manage the... Read more

Party pledge analysis

This dataset focuses on the Portuguese main political parties agenda-setting in electoral manifestos (1995-2015), and corresponding pledges fulfillment. Read more

Citizens' panel Data

A two-wave questionnaire was applied to the Portuguese population in 2014 and 2015. Its main goal is to assess the effects of government and parties' policy decisions on the dynamic of citizens' perceptions and attitudes. Read more

Parliamentary questions

It collects the parliamentary questions during plenary sessions encompassing the questions to government and the debates with the ministers and Prime-Minister. The analysis spans since April 2007 (when the... Read more

Prime-Minister’s speeches

This dataset reports to the speeches of the Portuguese Prime-ministers when taking office and other executive speeches since 2002 to 2015. Read more

Media Analysis:

The media analysis focuses on media issue attention conveyed by the press within the research time span (1995-2015). The considered newspapers are: Expresso, Visão and Público. Read more