Since 2005, the French Agendas Project has elaborated several indicators on French political institutions' activism and issue attention. Currently data is available for the following institutions: - Adopted bills (since 1986) - Weekly government statements (since 1974) - Government bill proposals (since 1974) - Presidential speeches (since 1958) - Constitutional Council decisions (since 1958) - Budget data (since 1820) Further indicators are being currently elaborated. In particular, we are working on media and partisan data. The objective here is to code - articles on the first page of Le Monde, the main reference newspaper for political information (since 1981) - and the 8 o'clock news from the 2 major broadcasting networks, TF1 and France 2 (since 1986) Several publications are under way and many more are to come. We will shortly list references here. Moreover, a specific website for the French project should be created before the end of the current year. Research operations are currently directed by Emiliano Grossman in Paris and Sylvain Brouard in Bordeaux. The project also involves Abel François from the University of Strasbourg and Martial Foucault from the University of Montreal. Frank Baumgartner has been closely associated with the project since the very beginning. For further information, please contact Emiliano Grossman at emiliano.grossman@sciences-po.fr. |  |