Political Science Data: Find Data, Produce Results, Share Insights.

British J. of Political Science Dataverse
Replication datasets for BJPS articles
Journal Archives
Democracy Barometer
A new instrument to measure the quality of established democracies.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
World Press Freedom Index
From Reporters Without Borders
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Irfan Nooruddin
Georgetown Univ., see dataverse.
Authors | Comp. Politics
J. of Experimental Poli. Sci. Dataverse
Contains replication data and other relevant files for articles published in the journal.
Journal Archives
Most Important Problem Dataset
Updated through June 2015, from Laron K. Williams
Data Sites | Public Opinion Surveys
ParlGov: Parliaments & Gov'ts Database
A data infrastructure for political science and contains information for all EU and most OECD democracies.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
European Representative Democracy Data Archive
Datasets on political institutions, political parties, cabinets and governments in Europe.
Data Sites | European Politics
World Integrated Trade Solution
Allows users to access and retrieve information on trade and tariffs, from the World Bank.
Data Sites | IR
Suggest a Link
Navigate to the page where you think your link should appear and look for a box that looks this this.

Share InsightsAll poli sci journals | blogs | podcasts

Law & Policy
RSS | Embraces varied research methodologies that interrogate law, governance, and public policy worldwide.
Journals
Social Politics
the journal for incisive analyses of gender, politics and policy across the globe
Journals
Criminal Justice Studies
RSS | a quarterly refereed journal, publishes articles that deal with substantive criminal justice and criminological iss...
Journals | Law & Courts
Electoral Studies
RSS | International journal dedicated to the study of elections and voting in different parts of the world.
Journals | Voting & Elections
Understanding Latin American Politics
Greg Weeks looks at the current political situation in Latin America and tries to make sense of it along with the ...
Podcasts | Latin American Politics
Democracy Audit
Independent organisation based at the LSE for research into the quality and effectiveness of UK democracy.
Blogs | European Politics
Science of Politics, The
Features up-and-coming researchers delivering fresh insights on the big trends driving American politics and policy...
Podcasts
Environmental Politics
International, inter-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal for original research on environmental politics.
Journals
Journal of Law and Courts
From the Law and Courts Organized Section of the American Political Science Association.
Journals | Law & Courts
Journal of Judicial Administration
a leading forum for the discussion of contemporary issues impacting on judicial administration
Journals | Law & Courts

Original Projects & Publications

U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress
Pres. J. Adams's Positions:
5th House 5th Senate
6th House 6th Senate
American Politics

Political Science Teaching Assistant Program
What is a solidary incentive?
A reason or motive for supporting or participating in the activities of a group based on the desire to associate with others and to share with others a particular interest or hobby.Hover over to see answer
	TA Program: Intro. to Am. Gov't

The Essentials of Political Analysis, 6th Ed. (CQ/Sage, 2020)
Request exam copy
Student & instructor resources
Lecture videos
My Publications
Live R Code Demos
Sample uses of the R Statistics Program for political science research. From Barry Edwards, Political Science Data.
R Demos & Resources
Sample Syllabi for Research Methods Courses
Don't reinvent the wheel. Find courses that use your preferred software (SPSS, Stata, or R).
Teaching Resources
Calculate Ideal Points of Federal Judges
This program implements the Giles, Hettinger, Peppers (GHP) method of estimating ideal points of federal judges in ...
Data Sites | Law & Courts
Create Cross-Tabulations with US Circuit Court Data
This resource allows you to analyze some of the variables coded in Phase Three of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal...
Data Sites | Law & Courts

Teach Data AnalysisAll teaching resources

List of Political Science Data Collections
A simple, printer-friendly list of online political science data collections that you can add to your syllabus or s...
Teaching Resources
Lindsay Mayka's YouTube Channel
Collection of short videos for undergrad poli sci methods course.
Teaching Resources
Getting Started in Data Analysis using Stata and R
From Data and Statistical Services at Princeton University.
Teaching Resources
Desmos
Graph functions, plot data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and share with students.
Teaching Resources
NetLogo
A multi-agent programmable modeling environment. Site contains instructions, examples, see NetLogo Web to run examp...
Teaching Resources
Flowing Data
Nathan Yau explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and expl...
Teaching Resources
Scholarship on Teaching and Learning
Great compilation of resources from Kathleen Bratton, LSU Political Science Dept.
Teaching Resources
CoMSES Net
An international network with the goal of advancing agent based modeling in the social and ecological sciences, see...
Teaching Resources
Practical Exemplars on the Analysis of Surveys (PEAS)
Aims to help social researchers analyze complex surveys.
Teaching Resources
R - Learning By Example
Materials from Dave Armstrong's three-day ICPSR course.
Teaching Resources

International RelationsAll IR

Brett Ashley Leeds
Rice University
Authors | IR
War on the Rocks
A platform for analysis, commentary, debate and multimedia content on foreign policy and national security issues t...
Blogs | IR
James D. Morrow
Univ. of Michigan, see datasets.
Authors | IR
Continent of Int'l Law
Dataset drawn from UN Treaty Series and features a random sample of agreements across the issue areas of economics,...
Data Sites | IR
Todd S. Sechser
University of Virginia, find replication data on research page
Authors | IR
Nils D. Weidmann
University of Konstanz
Authors | IR
Rev. of Int'l Organizations
Publishes original scientific contributions in the entire field of political economy, with a focus on the policies ...
Journals | IR
CShapes
Provides historical maps of state boundaries and capitals in the post-World War II period.
Data Sites | IR
Design of Trade Agreements (DESTA) Database
Systematic data on the design of preferential trade agreements that have been signed since 1945.
Data Sites | IR
International Security Dataverse
Replication material for some articles published in the last five years.
Journal Archives | IR

Comparative PoliticsAll CP

Comparative Agendas Project
Collects and organizes data from archived sources to track policy outcomes across countries. See dataset codebooks.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Irfan Nooruddin
Georgetown Univ., see dataverse.
Authors | Comp. Politics
Global State of Democracy Indices
Depict democratic trends at the country, regional and global levels across a broad range of different attributes of...
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Presidential Power Scores
presidential power scores for 116 countries across 181 time periods
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
WIDER Angle
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research addresses political and economic devel...
Blogs | Comp. Politics
Mert Moral
Sabancı University, Istanbul-Turkey, see dataverse.
Authors | Comp. Politics
Nathan M. Jensen
Professor, University at Texas Austin
Authors | Comp. Politics
Matthew Golder
Penn State Univ., see research page.
Authors | Comp. Politics
Canadian Journal of Political Science
RSS | Primary forum for innovative research on Canadian politics and government.
Journals | Comp. Politics
Party Government Data Set
Party Government in 40 Democracies 1945-2008, from Jaap Woldendorp, Hans Keman, Ian Budge.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics

American PoliticsAll American politics

Presidency Research
Data and links compiled by George Edwards and Ohbet Cheon
Data Sites | Am. Politics
United States Election Project
Information source for the United States electoral system; great data on voter turnout.
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Biographical Directory of Members of Congress
Needs description
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Keith E. Lee Jr.
Georgia College, replication datasets on publication page.
Authors | Am. Politics
Andrew Gelman
Columbia Univ., see dataverse.
Authors | Am. Politics
Matt A. Barreto
UCLA, see data archive.
Authors | Am. Politics
Jowei Chen
University of Michigan
Authors | Am. Politics
Agency Data
An Archive of Administrative Agency Data from Tony Bertelli and Christian Grose.
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Center for American Women & Politics
A leading source of scholarly research and current data about women’s political participation in the United State...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
A Few Reasonable Words
Podcast. A podcast from three professors trying desperately to soothe the frayed nerves of the American public with...
Podcasts | Am. Politics

Author Replication DataAll authors

Aljaz Kuncic
University of Ljubljana
Authors | Comp. Politics
Patrick Egan
NYU, see datasets on research page.
Authors | Am. Politics
Harald Schoen
Needs description
Authors
Kristian S. Gleditsch
University of Essex
Authors | IR
Aila M. Matanock
Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, replication data on research page
Authors | IR
Alexander Coppock
Needs description
Authors
Joel W. Johnson
Colorado State University - Pueblo
Authors | Comp. Politics
Gerald Schneider
Universitat Konstanz, see replication data.
Authors | Comp. Politics
Chris W. Bonneau
University of Pittsburgh, see dataverse page.
Authors | Law & Courts
Anthony Fowler
Harris School at Univ. of Chicago, see research page for replication dataset links.
Authors | Am. Politics

European PoliticsAll European politics

West European Politics
RSS | One of the most authoritative journals covering politics, government and public policy in Western Europe.
Journals | European Politics
Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe
Panel data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks of more than 120,000 individuals aged 50...
Data Sites | European Politics
British Election Study
Long term studies of Britain's electoral behavior.
Data Sites | European Politics
VoteWatch Europe
Provides a data-based overview of EU politics.
Data Sites | European Politics
European Representative Democracy Data Archive
Datasets on political institutions, political parties, cabinets and governments in Europe.
Data Sites | European Politics
Danish National Election Study
Data from all 16 elections in the 1971-2011 period.
Data Sites | European Politics
Democracy Audit
Independent organisation based at the LSE for research into the quality and effectiveness of UK democracy.
Blogs | European Politics
Dutch Parliamentary Voting Dataset
Voting behaviour in the Dutch parliament.
Data Sites | European Politics
Sven-Oliver Proksch
Needs description
Authors | European Politics
Party Systems and Governments Observatory
Data on government formation and party system institutionalization in all 48 European democracies, from the Second ...
Data Sites | European Politics

African PoliticsAll African politics

African Security
Strives to investigate the myriad issues relating to conflict and security within and between African nations, not ...
Journals | African Politics
Portal of Public Use Datasets on Sub-Saharan Africa
From the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Data Sites | African Politics
Ufahamu Africa
Life and politics on the continent.
Podcasts | African Politics
Statistics South Africa
Data on people, economy, and living conditions.
Data Sites | African Politics
Peter Van der Windt
NYU - Abu Dhabi
Authors | African Politics
Index of African Governance
From the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.
Data Sites | African Politics
Rev. of African Political Econ. Blog
Short articles to highlight developments on the continent and comment on the dynamics of protest, shifting patterns...
Blogs | African Politics
African Journal of Political Science
Published by the African Association of Political Science with the aim of providing a platform for African perspect...
Journals | African Politics
Review of African Political Economy
Radical analyses of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of...
Journals | African Politics
African Affairs
Published on behalf of the Royal African Society, the top ranked journal in African Studies, an inter-disciplinary ...
Journals | African Politics


All Male Panels? Representation and Democratic LegitimacyAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Amanda Clayton; Diana Z. O'Brien; Jennifer Piscopo (2019)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Building Cooperation Among Groups in Conflict: An Experiment on Intersectarian Cooperation in LebanonAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Han Il Chang; *Leonid Peisakhin (2019)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


It Takes A Coalition: The Community Impacts of CollaborationAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Alison Craig (2021)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Why Austerity? The Mass Politics of a Contested PolicyAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Kirk Bansak; Michael M. Bechtel; Yotam Margalit (2021)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


You're Not From Here!: The Consequences of Urban and Rural IdentitiesAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Stephen Utych; Jeffrey Lyons (Forthcoming)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


When Are Legislators Responsive to Ethnic Minorities? Testing the Role of Electoral Incentives and Candidate Selection for Mitigating Ethnocentric ResponsivenessAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Peter Thisted Dinesen; Malte Dahl; Mikkel Schiøler (2021)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Do Social Rights Affect Social Outcomes?Abstract \| Data \| Find Text
Christian Bjørnskov; Jacob Mchangama (2019)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


When Do Leaders Free-Ride? Business Experience and Contributions to Collective DefenseAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Matthew Fuhrmann (2020)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


When Voters Favour Social Investment Welfare StateAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Marc Brazzill; Hideko Magara; Yuki Yanai (2020)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Partisan Elites as Culprits? How Party Cues Shape Partisan Perceptual GapsAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Martin Bisgaard; Rune Slothuus (2018)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals

Democracy Barometer
A new instrument to measure the quality of established democracies.
	Data Sites \| Comp. Politics

World Press Freedom Index
From Reporters Without Borders
	Data Sites \| Comp. Politics

J. of Experimental Poli. Sci. Dataverse
Contains replication data and other relevant files for articles published in the journal.
	Journal Archives

Most Important Problem Dataset
Updated through June 2015, from Laron K. Williams
	Data Sites \| Public Opinion Surveys

British J. of Political Science Dataverse
Replication datasets for BJPS articles
	Journal Archives

Irfan Nooruddin
Georgetown Univ., see dataverse.
	Authors \| Comp. Politics

ParlGov: Parliaments & Gov'ts Database
A data infrastructure for political science and contains information for all EU and most OECD democracies.
	Data Sites \| Comp. Politics

European Representative Democracy Data Archive
Datasets on political institutions, political parties, cabinets and governments in Europe.
	Data Sites \| European Politics

World Integrated Trade Solution
Allows users to access and retrieve information on trade and tariffs, from the World Bank.
	Data Sites \| IR

	Suggest a Link
Navigate to the page where you think your link should appear and look for a box that looks this this.

Law & Policy
RSS \| Embraces varied research methodologies that interrogate law, governance, and public policy worldwide.
	Journals

Social Politics
the journal for incisive analyses of gender, politics and policy across the globe
	Journals

Criminal Justice Studies
RSS \| a quarterly refereed journal, publishes articles that deal with substantive criminal justice and criminological iss...
	Journals \| Law & Courts

Electoral Studies
RSS \| International journal dedicated to the study of elections and voting in different parts of the world.
	Journals \| Voting & Elections

Understanding Latin American Politics
Greg Weeks looks at the current political situation in Latin America and tries to make sense of it along with the ...
	Podcasts \| Latin American Politics

Democracy Audit
Independent organisation based at the LSE for research into the quality and effectiveness of UK democracy.
	Blogs \| European Politics

Science of Politics, The
Features up-and-coming researchers delivering fresh insights on the big trends driving American politics and policy...
	Podcasts

Environmental Politics
International, inter-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal for original research on environmental politics.
	Journals

Journal of Law and Courts
From the Law and Courts Organized Section of the American Political Science Association.
	Journals \| Law & Courts

Journal of Judicial Administration
a leading forum for the discussion of contemporary issues impacting on judicial administration
	Journals \| Law & Courts

U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress
Pres. J. Adams's Positions: 5th House 5th Senate 6th House 6th Senate
	American Politics

The Essentials of Political Analysis, 6th Ed. (CQ/Sage, 2020)

Request exam copy Student & instructor resources Lecture videos
	My Publications

Live R Code Demos
Sample uses of the R Statistics Program for political science research. From Barry Edwards, Political Science Data.
	R Demos & Resources

Sample Syllabi for Research Methods Courses
Don't reinvent the wheel. Find courses that use your preferred software (SPSS, Stata, or R).
	Teaching Resources