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Training Module 2: Using Policy Agena Data

August 2025

This module provides an overview of the Policy Agendas Project data, including how to access and utilize the data for research in political science and public policy. It covers navigating the Comparative Agendas Project website, using the trends tool for data visualization, and highlights various applications of the data in scholarly research.

Keywords

Policy Agendas Project, data access, trends tool, political science, public policy, research applications, immigration data, congressional hearings, data visualization, codebook

Takeaways

The Policy Agendas Project data is essential for political science research.

Accessing the data involves navigating the comparative agendas project website.

The trends tool allows for visualizing data trends over time.

Data sets can be downloaded for in-depth analysis.

The codebook is a crucial resource for understanding the data.

Research applications include studying immigration and congressional hearings.

The data has been used to explore punctuated equilibrium theory.

Machine learning methods are being developed to analyze the data.

The project has been utilized in various scholarly findings across disciplines.

Understanding the data structure is key for effective research.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction and Overview

00:28 Accessing the Codebook and Data Sets

02:30 Using the Trends Tool

05:25 Scholarly Use of the Data