UK Statutory Instruments

Abstract

This dataset contains all national level UK statutory instruments from 1987 to 2008 coded according to the Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) content coding scheme (www.comparativeagendas.info). The data is a pilot of the project "Bureaucratic Agendas: The Responsiveness of Secondary Legislation in a Comparative Perspective" that is currently being developed (see http://sbevan.com/projects--data.html). Please cite the following article when using this data:

Bevan, Shaun. 2015. “Bureaucratic Responsiveness: The Effects of Government, Public and European Attention on the UK Bureaucracy.” Public Administration, 93(1): 139-158. (doi: 10.1111/padm.12113).