APSA 2011 Short Course
Presentations from the APSA 2011 Short Course are now available for download below:
Bryan Jones and Trey Thomas - Developments in the US Project (.pdf)
Elizabeth Collins and James Stimson - Policy Specific Measures of the Public Mood (part1 part2)
Joseph McLaughlin - Building and Using the Pennsylvania Database (.pdf)
Christian Bruenig - Stochastic Process Analysis (.pdf)
John Wilkerson and Loren Collingwood - Computer-assisted Topic Classification .pdf)
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Update: The Policy Agendas short course (SC26) is scheduled to be held in Convention Center 3A. The room is subject to change, so please check conference program information to verify. Any questions should now be directed to Trey Thomas (treythomas@gmail.com).
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The Policy Agendas Project will be offering a short course on the US and comparative agendas projects at the 2011 APSA meeting. An overview, schedule, and registration information is available below.
Wednesday August 31 2011
Organizers: Frank R. Baumgartner (UNC-Chapel Hill), Bryan D. Jones (UT-Austin), and Michelle Wolfe (UT-Austin)
This short course will introduce various aspects of the US and comparative policy agendas projects and is designed for graduate students and faculty members already involved in agendas-type research or for those interested in learning about the resources available and the techniques and skills most useful in analyzing the datasets. Presentations will range from general overviews of the projects to more advanced topics associated with particular analytic skills and techniques.
Registration is free but an advanced confirmation is required so we know how many will be in attendance. Those interested in participating must register via the APSA website before August 15th (available at https://www.apsanet.org/mtgs/program_2011/shortcourses.cfm). Questions about the content of the short course may be directed to Michelle Wolfe, the US project manager, at wolfemi@mail.utexas.edu.
1 to 1:30pm Introduction to the Short Course and Overview of the Agendas Projects, Frank R. Baumgartner (UNC-Chapel Hill)
1:30 to 2:00pm Current developments in the US Agendas Project, Bryan D. Jones and Michelle Wolfe (UT-Austin) (30 min)
2:00 to 2:30pm Developing policy specific measures of the public mood, Jim Stimson and Elizabeth Coggins (UNC-Chapel Hill)
2:30 to 3:00pm Building and Using the Pennsylvania Database: A Model for the States, Joseph McLaughlin (Temple Univ.)
3:00 to 3:10pm break
3:10 to 4:00pm Current Status of Agendas Projects in other Countries, Sylvain Brouard (SciencesPo Bordeaux), Martial Foucault (Univ. of Montreal), Lucie Spanihelova (Leiden Univ.), Jeroen Joly (Univ. of Antwerp), Isabelle Engeli (Univ. of Geneva)
4:00 to 4:30pm A Primer on Stochastic Process Analysis, Christian Breunig (Univ. of Toronto)
4:30 to 5:00pm Computer-assisted Topic Classification, John Wilkerson (UW-Seattle)
5:00 to 5:30pm Questions and discussion