The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) is a bit of a misnomer as the CAP is in reality a set of many projects aimed at classifying government and public agendas according to the policies they address. Functioning much like a network with many connections and key, central players there is no hierarchical leadership, no common budget and no formal rules for membership. Instead this most apolitical research community is focused on a common desire to understand policy attention based on a mixture of scientific disciplines, subfields, methods and questions.
Please visit the CAP Master Codebook page for an up to date codebook. For a detailed understanding of the codebook and how it works please see the below chapter. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to e-mail us at policyagendas@gmail.com.
Bevan, Shaun. 2019. “Gone Fishing: The Creation of the Comparative Agendas Project Master Codebook.” In Frank R. Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, and Emiliano Grossman (eds.) Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Description: This chapter provides an overview of the CAP and the creation of the CAP Master Codebook.