Friday, September 16, 2005

Policy Agendas Project : Policy Analysis tool

"The Policy Agendas Project codes policymaking activity in 19 major topics and 220 subtopics. Each event (a Senate hearing in 1991 for example) is designated as being primarily about one, and only one, major topic, and one subtopic within that major topic."

"The Policy Analysis tool allows you to chart and analyze trends of these major topics over time. Users can analyze attention to different policy topics across venues, utilizing the tool's access to all of the Policy Agendas Projects' databases. In addition, several of the datasets include various filters which if selected will narrow your search. These filters are not mutually exclusive and records can be selected based on any number of characteristics. For example, if you select several of the Hearing dataset's filters, each record will either be included or excluded in the analysis depending on whether it has satisfied all of your criteria."

Supported by grants from NSF and funding from the University of Washington and Penn State.

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