Workshop: Comparative Policy Agendas Project

比较政策研究项目（CAP）是一个12个国家的合作研究奋进，涉及大约40名政治科学家及其研究生（www.comparativeangendas.org）。 该项目的核心是在国家科学基金会的支持下开发的综合政策主题分类系统。 这一分类系统最初是为了研究美国国家一级的议题议程而开发的，现在（经过最小的修改）被用来比较各国对议题的关注。 第一个是关于知识价值的，是促进关于影响各国问题议程的因素的进一步理论化。 虽然在这一领域的一些工作取得了重要进展，但使用这些数据的大多数研究都是探索性的。 通过允许各种各样的学者在面对面的环境中见面，希望这种互动将导致一种更有理论基础的调查形式。 第二个目的涉及更广泛的影响，与研究生的资助有关。 研究生将学习这些数据以及分类方法和抓取技术的计算机技术。 希望这些工具将使学生能够以有趣和创新的方式使用CAP提供的数据，或者为学生提供促进他们自己研究的工具。

The Comparative Policy Agendas Project (CAP) is a 12 nation collaborative research endeavor involving approximately 40 political scientists and their graduate students (www.comparativeangendas.org). The core of the project is a comprehensive policy topic classification system developed with the support of the National Science Foundation. This classification system, originally developed to study issue agendas at the national level in the United States, is now being used (with minimal modifications) to compare issue attention across nations.The Comparative Policy Agendas Project workshop has two purposes. The first,which deals with intellectual merit, is to promote additional theorizing about the factors influencing issue agendas across the nations. While some work has made important advances in this area, most the studies using this data have been of a more exploratory nature. By allowing a wide variety of scholars to meet in a face-to-face setting, it is hoped that the interaction will lead to a more theoretically based form of inquiry. The second purpose, which concerns broader impacts, is connected to the funding for graduate students. Graduate students will be introduced to this data as well as computer techniques for classification methods and scraping technologies. It is hoped that these tools will allow the students to either use the data provided by the CAP in interesting and innovative ways or will provide the students with tools that facilitate their own research.