For example, to identify all titles that include the phrase 'amend the internal revenue code' or 'cancer').
Some users may want to create their own subject variables using a text string in a bill's title. An international team of scholars is now applying the Policy Agendas topic system to policymaking activities in about a dozen nations. Databases using the same topic classification systemīaumgartner, Jones and Wilkerson's Policy Agendas Project uses the same topic classification to code a range of other policymaking activities since 1947, including (among others) congressional hearings, statutes, executive orders, supreme court decisions, Gallup's most important problem (major topic) and a sample of NYT stories (major topic)
