| Abstract [eng] |
This article discusses the growing importance of public policy agenda research and presents the data resources available through the Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and Humanities (LiDA) for studying political (public policy), as well as other agendas (public, media) in Lithuania. It reviews the theoretical foundations of agenda-setting research, emphasizing the role of agenda formation in public policy processes and democratic governance. The article highlights the lack of systematic long-term agenda studies in Lithuania and argues that this gap has largely resulted from limited data infrastructure. It then introduces a range of survey and textual datasets curated and disseminated by LiDA, including public opinion surveys on the most important societal problems, presidential annual addresses, government programmes, parliamen tary debates, and election debate transcripts. Many of these datasets are prepared for textual analytics and aligned with the Comparative Agendas Project coding framework, enabling both longitudinal and compar ative research. The article concludes that LiDA is creating a sustainable research infrastructure that signifi cantly expands opportunities for the analysis of agenda dynamics, policy priorities, and political attention in Lithuania, while providing open and free access to researchers, public institutions, media professionals, and the wider public. |
