The paper examines how political institutions shape policy agendas in
advanced democracies. Specifically, we link the topics addressed by
national governments with the type of electoral systems and coalition
government. This linkage is rooted in the ways in which different segments of society are represented in national assemblies. We rely on legislative outputs coded thematically according to the comparative policy agendas project for 8 countries over the last 30 years in order to empirically investigate this linkage.
