Agenda dynamics in Latin America: theoretical and empirical opportunities

Abstract The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) collects, organizes, and makes freely available millions of bits of information concerning the objects of government attention over long periods of time (often back to the Second World War) for more than 25 political systems, worldwide. As researchers affiliated with the CAP expand their projects into Latin America, they confront some challenges similar to those from other regions, and some unique to their national political systems. In this introductory essay, we explore the background of the CAP and the opportunities posed by its expansion into Latin American political systems.摘要 比较议程项目（Comparative Agendas Project，CAP）收集、整理并免费开放数百万条有关政府长期关注议题的信息，其时间跨度通常可追溯至第二次世界大战，覆盖全球25个以上的政治体系。随着隶属于该项目的研究人员将研究项目拓展至拉丁美洲地区，他们既会遭遇与其他区域类似的挑战，也会面临本国政治体系所特有的难题。在这篇导论性文章中，我们将探讨比较议程项目的发展背景，以及其向拉丁美洲政治体系拓展所带来的机遇。