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Political Science Data Podcast: African Politics Today i

(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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Dummy Variables in Multiple Regression i

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Aging Research at ISR i

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Supports advances in election science by collecting, analyzing, and sharing core data and findings..

MIT Election Lab

At Oxford University, researching the economic and social development in Africa since 1986, includes Free and Fair Elections Database..

Center for the Study of African Economies

Aims to explain why people vote as they do and why an election ends in a particular way. .

Swedish National Election Studies

Collects and organizes data from archived sources to track policy outcomes across countries. See dataset codebooks..

Comparative Agendas Project

Long term studies of Britain's electoral behavior..

British Election Study

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Each volume is guest edited by outstanding scholars and experts in the topics studied and presents more than 200 pages of timely, in-depth research on a significant topic of concern..

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Online journal of original scholarship, research, and commentary on national, state, and local government, electoral politics, and public policy formation and implementation.

California J. of Politics & Policy

One of the few truly international political science journals with a broad scope across the discipline (published by Springer)..

Acta Politica

A multidisciplinary journal focusing on migration issues as analyzed by social scientists from all parts of the world..

International Migration

Published by the Urban Politics Section of the APSA..

Urban Affairs Review

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Pres. Woodrow Wilson'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.