The Portuguese Policy Agendas Project

This chapter presents the Portuguese Agendas Project. It contextualizes the project through a characterization of the Portuguese political system, describes the Project’s datasets, and discusses and illustrates its main specificities. The Portuguese Agendas Project coded policy attention given between 1995 and 2015 to: oral parliamentary questions to the prime minister on the floor, oral parliamentary questions to the ministers on the floor, written parliamentary questions to the cabinet, party pledges in manifestos, prime minister’s speeches, and the media. Each of the Project’s datasets is presented in detail, reporting the data sources, the samples sizes, and the particularities underlying the Portuguese case. Finally, at the end of the chapter, summary descriptive data is presented regarding the analysis of party pledges.