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(21:07) This episode shares data-driven insights about African Politics. It covers a variety of studies, addressing issues like technology, state infrastructure, foreign relations, economics, ethnicity, the legacy of colonialism, and democracy. .
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Collection of political and institutional country-level data. It consists of annual data for 36 democratic countries for the period of 1960 to 2015 or since their transition to democracy..
Comparative Political Data Set
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Census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space..
IPUMS
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A shared commons of data and tools for the United States..
@unitedstates Project, The
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Data on electoral volatility and its internal components in European Parliament elections in all EU countries since 1979, for both the class bloc and the demarcation bloc..
Electoral Volatility in the European Parliament Elections
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Compiled by Princeton University's Politics Librarian.
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Posts about law and politics.
Volokh Conspiracy
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A widely read and accessible scholarly journal on government, politics, and public policy..
Political Science Quarterly
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Blogging about politics, parties, and voting behaviour since 2008. Focus on the Far Right. Also: data, methods, and the perils of peer review..
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Publishes original research in the general fields of political behavior, institutions, processes, and policies..
Political Behavior
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The official publication of the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association.
State Politics & Policy Quarterly
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Pres. James Buchanan's Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress
This data is part of a larger project to identify the policy preferences of all U.S. Presidents. See index.