The Belgian agendas project currently in it's second (and no comparative) incarnation, following a previous agendas project using a different codebook. In this project the team collected: - The public opinion-agenda, composed out of several (divers) public opinion data throughout the nineties - The parliamentary political, containing the questions and answers, and interpellations in the federal parliament. - The parliamentary legislative agenda, containing the legislative output of the federal parliament - The budget-agenda - The political Party-agenda (Party-programs) - The government-agreements-agenda - The Council of Ministers-agenda (based on the content and decisions of the federal governments weekly meetings) - The media-agenda (Two TV-channels, and 2, respectively 3 newspapers from the French- speaking and Dutch-speaking part of the country) - The Real-World-Indicators (The actual facts, where available and reliable) - The Civil Society-agenda, based on on the one hand a database of protest marches in the nineties, and on the other hand the issues on which the civil society organizations get media-exposure. (Contact Stefaan Walgrave for this data) Activities in this phase of the project have focused on developing comparative standards for collection of media and partisan data. Ultimately we will collect comparative data on political agendas from 1978-2008 of the following types: - Interpellations - Legislative output - Party programs - government agreements - The media agenda (one newspaper from the French and Dutch speaking halves of Belgium) Project Coordinator Prof. Stefaan Walgrave, University of Antwerp, Belgium Stefaan Walgrave is professor of political science at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). His research focuses on political communication and on social movements and protest. Within political communication, he directed an earlier agenda-setting project in Belgium covering the 1991-2000 period. He has mainly done work on the political agenda-setting power of the media and on how political parties interact with mass media and has published about these topics in journals like Journal of Communication, Political Communication, Journal of European Public Policy and Comparative Political Studies. stefaan.walgrave@ua.ac.be Post Doctoral Resarcher Dr. Tobias Van Assche, University of Antwerp, Belgium Tobias Van Assche is a post-doctoral fellow in the department of political science at the University of Antwerp. He received his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, USA. He is interested in the effect the media has on other political actors. Tobias is also interested in political leadership and foreign policy decision making. Tobias.vanassche@ua.ac.be PhD Student Researchers Jeroen Joly, University of Antwerp, Belgium Jeroen Joly is a PhD student in political science and researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His main research interests are comparative politics of public policy making. His current research focuses on the impact and the role of the media, parties, and type of policy on public policy dynamics. jeroen.joly@ua.ac.be Brandon C. Zicha, University of Antwerp, Beligum and Binghamton University, U.S.A. Brandon Zicha is a PhD student in political communication and researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium as well as a PhD candidate in political science at Binghamton University (SUNY), U.S.A. His research focuses on policy representation, political parties , and constitutional design in advanced industrial democracies. His dissertations address the speed with which policy changes are made in different constitutional and party systems. Brandon.zicha@ua.ac.be Related websites |  |