Comparative Agendas Project (CAP)
Comparative Agendas Project

Comparative Agendas Project

The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) is an international research network that codes policy attention — laws, budgets, executive and media agendas — into a common topic scheme, so the dynamics of public policy can be compared across countries and over time. Choose a destination below.

Hungarian Policy Agendas Project
Hungarian arm — policy attention since 1990
Hungarian Policy Agendas Project
CAP International Conferences
International conference programs (2011–2026)
CAP International Conferences
DATA
Hungarian CAP datasets (26 series, policy-coded)
Hungarian CAP datasets

Books and selected publications

Selected English-language work from the Comparative Agendas Project and related agenda-setting, computational-methods, and public-budgeting research.

Edited volumePolicy Agendas in Autocracy, and Hybrid Regimes: The Case of HungaryCo-edited with Zsolt Boda · Palgrave Macmillan, 2021Read ↗Book chapterThe Hungarian Policy Agendas Projectwith Zsolt Boda · in Comparative Policy Agendas: Theory, Tools, Data (Oxford University Press, 2019)Read ↗ArticleAgenda-Setting Studies in Public Policy: Origins, Development, and New Possibilities in the Age of AIwith Frank R. Baumgartner, Shaun Bevan · Communication and Change, 2026Read ↗ArticleLeveraging Open Large Language Models for Multilingual Policy Topic Classification: The Babel Machine Approachwith Ákos Máté et al. · Social Science Computer Review, 2025Read ↗ArticleComparative European legislative research in the age of large-scale computational text analysis: A review articlewith Sven-Oliver Proksch et al. · International Political Science Review, 2023Read ↗ArticleThe (real) need for a human touch: a human-machine hybrid topic classification workflow on a New York Times corpusQuality & Quantity, 2022Read ↗ArticlePunctuated Equilibrium and Progressive Friction in Socialist Autocracy, Democracy and Hybrid Regimeswith Ágnes M. Balázs, Csaba Molnár · Journal of Public Policy, 2022Read ↗ArticleThe Multiclass Classification of Newspaper Articles with Machine Learning: The Hybrid Binary Snowball Approachwith Zoltán Kacsuk · Political Analysis, 2021Read ↗ArticlePunctuated Equilibrium in Democracy and Autocracy: An Analysis of Hungarian Budgeting Between 1868 and 2013with Tamás Berki · European Political Science Review, 2018Read ↗ArticleIncrementalism and Punctuated Equilibrium in Hungarian Budgeting (1991–2013)with Tamás Berki · Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, 2017Read ↗