Portuguese Policy agenda project: Party pledges, media, public opinion and legislation The Portuguese policy agendas project focuses on policy attention in Portugal from 1986 up to now. The project members are currently in the process of applying for funding, and PhD students in Communication, Public Policy and Political Science have already started collecting data’s in a coherent fashion. Together with coding specific items, this project hopes to create synergies and collaboration between the Policy Agenda Project on the one hand and two international networks (Comparative Party Pledges Group; the Pew Project for the Excellence in Journalism) to which some of the project members belong on the other hand. The Portuguese Policy Agenda Project is divided in four research lines. 1) Legislation · Budget, legislative bills and ministerial decrees (1986-present) · Co-ordinated by Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues, Associate Professor at ISCTE-IUL and Director of the Master Degree in Public Policy. mlurdes.rodrigues@iscte.pt · Team Members: Maria Luisa Araujo, Mariana Vieira da Silva, Luisa Proença 2) Electoral pledges · Electoral manifestoes and coalition agreement (1986-present) · Co-ordinated by Catherine Moury, Assistant Professor at ISCTE-IUL and Director of the PhD in Public Policy. Catherine.moury@iscte.pt · Team Members: Elisabetta Di Giorgi, Nicolo Conti, Ana Belchior and Filipa Seiceira 3) Media · Daily newspapers, radio broadcast and television first minutes (present-) · Co-ordinated by Gustavo Cardoso, Assistant Professor at ISCTE-IUL and Director of the PhD in Communication. gustavo.cardoso@iscte.pt · Team members: Susana Santos, Adelino Gomes, José Barreiros, Cláudia Lamy, Pedro Jacobetty 4) Public opinion · Survey about the ‘most important problem facing the country’ (2002-present) · Co-ordinated by Ana Belchior, Assistant Professor at ISCTE-IUL and Deputy-Director of the Department of Public Policy and Political science. anamariabelchior@gmail.com · Team members: To be completed |  |