On 7 November 2025, Miklós Sebők delivered a presentation at the University of Texas at Austin during the panel Building the Dataset, organised as part of the broader event “A Celebration of The Policy Agendas Project and Bryan Jones.” In his contribution, Sebők highlighted the AI-assisted methodological and conceptual innovations required to construct robust, longitudinal policy datasets. He discussed challenges in ensuring coding consistency, integrating heterogeneous political information, and adapting established frameworks to new digital and multilingual sources. Sebők underscored the unique Importance of the Policy Agendas codebook developed by Bryan D. Jones and Frank Baumgartner. His presentation showed examples of how the collaborative, cross-national data project strengthens the analytical foundations of the Policy Agendas Project and enables more precise comparative research on policy change.
