Policy Agendas Project

Attempt to provide comparable measures of policy changes in the United States since the Second World War. Includes information summarizing each U.S. Congressional hearing from 1946-2021; information from all articles in the main chapters of the Congressional Quarterly Almanac from 1948-2015; information about each public law passed from 1948-2022; bills introduced in Congress from 1947-2016; every congressional roll call vote from 1946-2022; Congressional Research Service reports from 1997-2021; information about each executive order issued from 1945-2021; information on each quasi-statement in the Presidential State of the Union Speeches from 1946-2023; presidential veto rhetoric from 1985-2016; Democratic Party platforms 1948-2020; Republican Party platforms 1948-2016; contains information on each case on the Supreme Courts docket from from 1944-2023; time-series database of all associations in the Encyclopedia of Associations, coded both by the EA subject categories as well as by the major topics of the PAP from 1966 to 2001; responses to Gallup's Most Important Problem question aggregated at the annual level from 1947-2023; Policy Moods from 1940-2018; a systematic random sample of the New York Times Index from 1946-2016; information on the number of pages in the New York Times Index and an estimate of the number of articles per page; New York Times front page from 1996-2006;  television news policy agendas from 1968-2010; annual data, adjusted for inflation, of U.S. Budget Authority from FY 1947-FY 2017; tax expenditures from 1979-2016; and highlights of the main issues concerning the study of budgetary outcomes across countries and time.