The purpose of the Hungarian Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) is to reveal the dynamics of Hungarian public policy by investigating the various public policy and political agendas using quantitative methods. The research takes place at HUN-REN TK Institute for Political Science and was previously supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA). 

The project adapts the Policy Agendas Project’s public policy content analysis codebook created by Frank Baumgartner and Bryan Jones to the local environment.

The research aims to create a consistent database of defining issues for the actors of Hungarian public policy - such as the parliament, the media, and the public actors. The reliability of the measurements is guaranteed by clearly defined, coherent coding rules, whereby the changes in the government’s priorities can be consistently traced in time and also in areas of public policy.

Within the framework of CAP research, several databases have been created containing data available for researchers, students, professionals, and public actors.

At present, data collected within the framework of the project include:

• Budgets and final accounts (1868-2018)
• Laws (1001-2022) and decree laws (1949-1989)
• Resolutions (1990-2022)
• Bills (1990-2022)
• Protocol of the Hungarian National Assembly (1990-2022)
• Pre-agenda speeches (1949-2022)
• Post-agenda speeches (1949-2022)
• Interpellations (1865-2022)
• Urgent questions (1994-2022)
• Oral questions (1971-2022)
• Written questions (1998-2014)
• Members of parliament (1990-2018)
• Committees (1861-2024)
• Parties (1861-2024)
• Leaders and deputy leaders of party caucuses (1990-2014)
• Electoral constituecies (1990-2014)
• Party manifestos (1990-2014)
• Decrees (1990-2018)
• Hungarian Official Journal (1998-2015)
• Members of cabinet (1848-2024)
• Speeches of the Prime Minister (2010-2018)
• Prime Minister's interviews on Kossuth Radio programme "Good Morning, Hungary!" (2020-2021)
• Speeches of the President of the Republic (2012-2018)
• Front pages of Népszabadság (1990-2014)
• Front pages of Magyar Nemzet (2002-2014)
• Reports of the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (2007-2023)
• Most important issues (2004-2018, 2020)

 

The website is managed and updated by Csaba Molnár. If you have any further questions about the project, please write to cap@tk.hu.