Access to data

The French Agendas Project has collected a great number of times series of varying length on French political institutions and actors. Those datasets were built thanks to the generous support by the French Research Agency ANR (grant 'ANR-Gouv-055'), as well as a list of other sources that can be viewed here. Four consolidated datasets can now be downloaded from this page.

All datasets are in csv-format (sep: semicolon), easily readable by Excel and most standard statistical software packages.

All series have been subject to topic or issue coding, using the Agendas coding scheme, originally developped within the US Policy Agendas project, initiated in the 1990s by Frank Baumgartner and Bryan Jones. An uptodate version of the French Agendas Codebook can be dowloaded here:

Codebook France

All datasets can be freely downloaded, but remain the intellectual property of the members of the French Agendas Project. They have to be referenced adequately. For any further question, please contact the This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The laws of the 5th Republic

Codebook Law Data Set

French Laws Data Set

Citation: Frank Baumgartner, Sylvain Brouard et Emiliano Grossman, « Agenda-setting dynamics in France: revisiting the “partisan hypothesis” French Politics », French Politics 7(2), 2010, p. 75-95.

Statements of the Government Council

Codebook Government Statements Data Set

French Government Statements Data Set

Decisions by the Constitutional Council

Codebook Constitional Council Data Set

French Constitutional Council Data Set

Citation: Sylvain Brouard, "The Politics of Constitutional Veto in France: Constitutional Council, Legislative Majority and electoral competition", West European politics, Volume 32, Issue 2, March 2009, pages 384-403."

Electoral party platforms

Codebook Party Platforms Data Set

French Party Platforms Data Set

Citation: Sylvain Brouard, Emiliano Grossman et Isabelle Guinaudeau, "La compétition partisane française au prisme des priorités électorales", Revue française de science politique, vol. 62, no. 2, 2012, p. 255-276.