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Policy Agendas Project

The Policy Agendas Project collects and organizes data from various archived sources to trace changes in the national policy agenda and public policy outcomes since the Second World War.

Policymaking activity in each dataset is coded according to the same policy content coding system, making it possible to compare the policy processes of over five decades.

Available datasets include congressional hearings, statutes, Congressional Quarterly stories, a sample of New York Times stories, Gallup's Most Important Problem series, and Presidential Executive Orders. In addition, each of these series can be compared to Congressional Budget Authority.