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About the project:

The Portuguese Agendas Project was born out of the collaboration between two Portuguese universities, the University of Lisbon and the University Nova of Lisbon, and encompasses three different but complementary projects: 

"Public Preferences and Policy Decision-Making. A Longitudinal and Comparative Analysis" - PTDC/IVC-CPO/3921/2012 (2013 to 2015) Coordinated by Ana Maria Belchior Associated institutions: ISCTE-IUL, CIES-IUL, FCT. 

"Portuguese Parliament: Agenda-setting and Law-making" - IF/00382/2014 (2016 to 2020) Coordinated by Enrico Borghetto Associated institutions: FCSH-NOVA, CICS.NOVA, FCT.

"Party Pledge and democratic accountability: the portuguese case from a comparative perspective" - PTDC/CPJ-CPO/111915/2009 (2010 to 2014) Coordinated by Catherine Moury Associated institutions: ISCTE-IUL, CIES-IUL, FCT.  

 

Principal Investigator: Ana Maria Belchior (ana.belchior@iscte.pt), Enrico Borghetto (enrico.borghetto@fcsh.unl.pt) and Catherine Moury (catherine.moury@fcsh.unl.pt)
Location: Lisbon
Email: ana.belchior@iscte.pt

Sponsoring Institutions

All the projects received the financial support of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). 

Portugal

Featured Research:
Party Manifestos,Opposition and Media as Determinants of the Cabinet Agenda

Borghetto E and Belchior AM (2019, onlinefirst) Party Manifestos, Opposition and Media as Determinants of the Cabinet Agenda. Political Studies. Cabinets are the engine of policy change in parliamentary systems. Yet, we still know little about how cabinets micro-manage the content of their multifaceted agenda during their term in office. Drawing on the party and agenda-setting literature, this article addresses this gap by focusing on three main determinants of cabinet... Read more

Party pledge analysis

This dataset focuses on the Portuguese main political parties agenda-setting in electoral manifestos (1995-2015), and corresponding pledges fulfillment. Read more

Citizens' panel Data

A two-wave questionnaire was applied to the Portuguese population in 2014 and 2015. Its main goal is to assess the effects of government and parties' policy decisions on the dynamic of citizens' perceptions and attitudes. Read more

Parliamentary questions

It collects the parliamentary questions during plenary sessions encompassing the questions to government and the debates with the ministers and Prime-Minister.            The analysis spans since April 2007 (when the parliamentarian questions were introduced by law) to September 2015 (in the case of the questions to the Ministers and the Prime-Minister), and from 2002 to 2014 (regarding questions to the... Read more

Prime-Minister’s speeches

This dataset reports to the speeches of the Portuguese Prime-ministers when taking office and other executive speeches since 2002 to 2015. Read more

Media Analysis:

The media analysis focuses on media issue attention conveyed by the press within the research time span (1995-2015). The considered newspapers are: Expresso, Visão and Público. Read more