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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 5, 2019). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) brings together data on government activities in over twenty countries, and provides a consistent categorizing system to understand when a given institution of government in a particular country took action on any issue of public policy. All topics are covered, comprehensively, over several decades, in some countries going back to World War II. Because of the open-data philosophy that animates the international network of scholars involved in the project and their meticulous attention to comparability and common data coding conventions, the databases of the CAP represent an unprecedented resource for the study of public policy across national borders. In this major new book, leaders of each national team provide the background and information needed for anyone to understand how best to make use of these newly available historical databases. Interested users will range from novice students of public policy to accomplished scholars, from interested citizens to professional journalists, political or partisan activists, and professional staff of legislative assemblies or national administrative agencies. The book's sections include chapters introducing the CAP to a new audience, describing each national project, illustrating various cross-national uses and analyses that the CAP data allow, and concluding with ideas for further practical and research uses. |
| Contents |
Cover; Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Part I: Roots, Foundations, and Evolution; 1: The Comparative Agendas Project: Intellectual Roots and Current Developments; 1.1 Roots and Goals of the Comparative Agendas Project; 1.2 Using Agendas to Study Public Policy across and within Nations; 1.3 Comparative Policy Agendas as a Field of Study; 1.4 The Current State of the CAP Infrastructure; 1.5 Structure of the Book; References |
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2: Gone Fishing: The Creation of the Comparative Agendas Project Master Codebook2.1 The Comparative Agendas Project: A Philosophy and a Beginning; 2.1.1 But What Is CAP Data?; 2.1.2 Coding Limited by Design; 2.1.3 Policy Not Targets? Terrorism and the Economic Crisis; 2.2 Coding through Compromise: The CAP Master Codebook; 2.2.1 The Master Codebook Process; 2.2.2 The Devil in the Details; 2.2.3 A Cold War Mentality: Addressing the Country and Regional Subtopics; 2.3 The Validity of Policy Differences; 2.3.1 Defense Policy: The United States vs Switzerland |
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2.3.2 Culture: Something France Has and the United Kingdom Does Not?2.3.3 Universal Health: Policy Attention; 2.4 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 3: The Comparative Agendas Project: The Evolving Research Interests and Designs of the CAP Scholarly Community; 3.1 What CAP Scholars Are Interested in; 3.2 Designs Used by CAP Scholars; 3.3 Conclusion: Past and Future of the Comparative Agendas Project; Note; References; Part II: Country Projects; 4: The Australian Policy Agendas Project; 4.1 The Australian Political System; 4.2 Datasets of the Australian Policy Agendas Project |
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4.2.1 Legislation4.2.2 Governor-General's Speeches (1945-2013); 4.2.3 Opposition Questions; 4.2.4 The Media; 4.2.5 Public Opinion; 4.2.6 The High Court of Australia; 4.3 An Example; Notes; References; 5: The Belgian Agendas Project; 5.1 The Belgian Agendas Project; 5.2 The Belgian Political System; 5.3 Belgian Datasets Description; 5.4 Focus of the Belgian Project; 5.5 Example: State Reform; Notes; References; 6: The Canadian Agendas Project; 6.1 The Canadian Political System; 6.2 Canadian Political Agendas; 6.3 Contributions of the Project and Perspectives; References |
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7: Croatian Political Agendas7.1 Introduction; 7.2 The Croatian Political System; 7.3 Datasets; 7.4 Specificities; 7.5 Automated Classification Procedure; 7.6 Example: Government Confidentiality Policies; References; 8: The Danish Agendas Project; 8.1 The Danish Political System; 8.2 Datasets; 8.3 Parliamentary Data Series; 8.4 Local Government Agendas; 8.5 Major Findings from the Danish Project; Notes; References; 9: The French Agendas Project; 9.1 The French Political System; 9.2 Datasets; 9.3 Specificities and Perspectives; Note; References; 10: Political Agendas in Germany |
| Local Note |
Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Open Access Books |
| Subject |
Policy sciences.
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Political planning.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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Policy sciences. (OCoLC)fst01068796
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Political planning. (OCoLC)fst01069460
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| Added Author |
Baumgartner, Frank R., 1958- editor.
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Breunig, Christian, editor.
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Grossman, Emiliano, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Comparative policy agendas. First edition. Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2019 0198835337 9780198835332 (OCoLC)1044689524 |
| ISBN |
9780192572226 (electronic book) |
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0192572229 (electronic book) |
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9780198835332 |
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0198835337 |
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