Abstract
Abstract This paper introduces the Comparative Agendas Project system of coding as well as a wealth of gathered and in process data from Latin America using this established and reliable system for capturing policy attention comparatively and over time. While this is not the first introduction of the coding system, it is the first introduction aimed at Latin America and a new type of political system beyond North American and European democracies. First, we present an overview of the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) and the Master Codebook used to create comparative policy attention data across countries, over time, and between agendas. These details of CAP are discussed for Latin America in general and for Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador, countries that recently started to gather data using these coding.
Highlights
How to code policy issues such as education, law and order, and housing can be done in many different ways with separate and unique understandings of the world
3.3 The Latin American Research Teams In Brazil, the data was originally collected by Ana Cláudia Niedhardt Capella and Felipe Gonçalves Brasil with the collaboration of undergraduate students from Sao Paulo State University (UNESP) and graduate studentes from Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar)
The enlargement of the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) community to Latin America will allow rich comparisons between countries, exploring questions that are of interest to Latin American studies
Summary
How to code policy issues such as education, law and order, and housing can be done in many different ways with separate and unique understandings of the world. The ability to measure the policy process and the priorities of political actors with precision using CAP data, will allow for the exploration of agenda-setting dynamics across Latin American countries from a totally new perspective, addressing questions that have so far been subjected to little empirical investigation. This will open a new research agenda in the region and provide opportunities for comparative research more broadly. We conclude with some general reflections on the CAP, applying the CAP to Latin America, and the potential for comparative research beyond the region
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