The Comparative Agendas Project: Intellectual Roots and Current Developments

Frank Baumgartner , Christian Breunig (1) , Emiliano Grossman (2)

1 Universität Konstanz
2 CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS)

The introductory chapter responds to several goals. It first provides some historical elements concerning the emergence and the development of the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP). The project grew out of individual national projects, which initially only aimed at providing a historical and more systematic infrastructure to the study of public policy. The cooperation between those national projects facilitated the emergence of common codebook. This, in turned, encouraged the emergence of comparative projects. Finally, we show that these different steps are currently contributing to redefine and develop the field of comparative public policy.

Keywords: Comparative Agendas Project; public policy; common codebook; comparative public policy; law-making; budgeting; legislative institutions; legislative–executive relations

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Political science

Frank Baumgartner, Christian Breunig, Emiliano Grossman. The Comparative Agendas Project: Intellectual Roots and Current Developments. Frank Baumgartner; Christian Breunig; Emiliano Grossman. Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tolls and Data, Oxford University Press, pp.3 - 16, 2019, 9780198835332. ⟨hal-02381043⟩