Comparative Agendas

Research

Policy Agendas in British Politics

Our book Policy Agendas in British Politics (Palgrave Macmillan) traces the attention of British government to different policy topics since 1945, showing how issues such as the economy, international affairs, crime and immigration have risen and fallen on the agenda. The... Read more

Party mandates and the politics of attention

An article just published in Party Politics uses data from the UK Policy Agendas Project to test an attention-based model of party mandates and policy agendas. The analysis uses time series cross-sectional models to show how the policy content of the legislative program of... Read more

Representation, Agendas and Institutions

In a recent study, published in the European Journal of Political Research, we use data from the US and UK Policy Agendas Projects to examine the transmission of the priorities of the public onto the policy priorities of government. This reveals how institutions structure... Read more

Bureaucratic Responsiveness in UK Statutory Instruments

In research recently published in Public Administration, Shaun Bevan investigates what determines the bureaucratic agenda. The study uses data on the policy content and ministry jurisdictions of UK statutory instruments from 1987 to 2008. It finds strong effects of the... Read more

United Kingdom

Research

Policy Agendas in British Politics

Party mandates and the politics of attention

Representation, Agendas and Institutions

Bureaucratic Responsiveness in UK Statutory Instruments