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The U.S. Policy Agendas Project collects and organizes data from various archived sources to trace changes in the national policy agenda and public policy outcomes of the United States since the Second World War.
Principal Investigator: Bryan Jones
Location: Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Email: policyagendas@gmail.com
Downloadable Data Series: 19
Time Span: 1901-2068
Total Observations: 894,574
Using the Policy Agendas Project codebook, we can see how different presidents' State of the Union addresses differ in policy content. This year, we looked at both President Biden's 2023 State of the Union policy topics, and the average across all his State of the Union addresses.
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