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Messi, Ronaldo, and the Politics of Celebrity Elections: Voting For the Best Soccer Player in the WorldAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Christopher Anderson; Luc Arrondel; André Blais; Jean-Francois Daoust; Jean-Francois Laslier; Karine Van der Straeten (2020)
	Journal Data \| More Journals

When State Building Backfires: Elite Coordination and Popular Grievance in RebellionAbstract | Data | Find Text
Francisco Garfias; Emily A. Sellars (2022 est.)
Journal Data | More Journals
Paths of Recruitment: Rational Social Prospecting in Petition CanvassingAbstract | Data | Find Text
*Clayton Nall; Benjamin Schneer; Daniel Carpenter (2018)
Journal Data | More Journals
Courting Informal Workers: Exclusion, Forbearance, and the LeftAbstract | Data | Find Text
German Feierherd (2022 est.)
Journal Data | More Journals
Foreign Aid and Undeserved Credit ClaimingAbstract | Data | Find Text
Cesi Cruz; Christina Schneider (2017)
Journal Data | More Journals
Party Control, Party Competition and Public Service PerformanceAbstract | Data | Find Text
George A. Boyne; *Oliver James; Peter John; Nicolai Petrovsky (2012)
Journal Data | More Journals


Tell Me Who Is Your Leader, and I Will Tell You Who You Are: Foreign Leaders' Perceived Personality and Public Attitudes toward Their Countries and CitizenryAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Meital Balmas (2018)
	Journal Data \| More Journals

Offsetting Uncertainty: Reassurance with Two-Sided Incomplete InformationAbstract | Data | Find Text
Kyle Haynes; Brandon Yoder (2020)
Journal Data | More Journals
The Moderating Effect of Debates on Political AttitudesAbstract | Data | Find Text
Sarah Brierley; *Eric Kramon; George Kwaku Ofosu (2020)
Journal Data | More Journals
It Takes A Coalition: The Community Impacts of CollaborationAbstract | Data | Find Text
Alison Craig (2021)
Journal Data | More Journals

Find DatasetsAll topical collections

Journal of Politics Dataverse
For articles published since 2015.
Journal Archives
Judicial Workload, Jury Verdicts & Crime Data
Links compiled by Harvard Law School Library.
Data Sites | Law & Courts
European Central Bank Statistical Data Warehouse
Economic indicators for Euro area.
Data Sites | European Politics
Robert L. Ostergard
University of Nevada, Reno, see datasets
Authors | Comp. Politics
Journal of Politics Dataverse
For articles published since 2015.
Journal Archives
Charles Stewart's Congress Data Page
Great resource on Congressional Committees
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Human Rights Data Analysis Group
A non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations ar...
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Freedom House
Produces data on a number of core thematic issues related to democracy, political rights and civil liberties.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey
The attitudes, values and beliefs of the people in Northern Ireland to a wide range of social policy issues.
Data Sites | European Politics
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Statistical Data Collections

Share InsightsAll poli sci journals | blogs | podcasts

Public Management Review
RSS | PMR promotes the dissemination and discussion of such research about public management. Its target audience is the ...
Journals | Public Administration
Studies in Am. Political Development
RSS | Articles focus on American governmental institutions over time and on their social, economic and cultural setting.
Journals | Am. Politics
Latin American Perspectives
A theoretical and scholarly journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, ...
Journals | Latin American Politics
Ballpark, The
LSE US Centre's regular online audio show on US politics, policy, and research.
Podcasts | Am. Politics
Journal of Political Science Education
RSS | focuses on teaching and learning about politics
Journals | Teaching and Learning
War on the Rocks
A platform for analysis, commentary, debate and multimedia content on foreign policy and national security issues t...
Blogs | IR
Social Media & Politics
A popular science podcast bringing you first-hand insights into how social media is changing the political game.
Podcasts
Harvard Univ. Press Blog - Political Science
News about HUP's political science publications
Blogs
British Journal of Political Science
RSS | Contributions are drawn from all fields of political science, widely recognized as one of the premier journals.
Journals
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Political Science Journals

Original Projects & Publications

U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress
Pres. Arthur's Positions:
47th House 47th Senate
48th House 48th Senate
American Politics

Political Science Teaching Assistant Program
What is a ''beauty contest'' (in politics)?
A presidential primary in which contending candidates compete for popular votes but the results do not control the selection of delegates to the national convention.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

DeclareDesign
A set of software tools for describing, assessing, and conducting empirical research.
Teaching Resources
Helipad Codex
Agent-based modeling in Python.
Teaching Resources
Center for Systemic Peace's YouTube Channel
Great set of concise videos to supplement courses on international relations.
Teaching Resources
Advanced Quantitative Research Methodology Class
Gary King's Harvard University course web site includes lecture notes and other resources.
Teaching Resources
Scholarship on Teaching and Learning
Great compilation of resources from Kathleen Bratton, LSU Political Science Dept.
Teaching Resources
Statology
Makes learning statistics easy through explaining topics in simple, straightforward ways, multiple statistics progr...
Teaching Resources
R - Learning By Example
Materials from Dave Armstrong's three-day ICPSR course.
Teaching Resources
Lindsay Mayka's YouTube Channel
Collection of short videos for undergrad poli sci methods course.
Teaching Resources
Center for Teaching and Learning
At the Univ. of Minnesota.
Teaching Resources
Choosing the Right Statistical Test
From John McDonald
Teaching Resources

Watch and LearnAll Excel tutorials | teaching resources

Testing Difference of Two Proportions
Matt Vespa solves a sample problem (5:45).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 9
How to Use CHISQ.TEST and CHISQ.INV.RT Functions
Illustrates with a goodness of fit test (4:12)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 10
Using Dummy Variable in Multiple Regression Analysis
Stephen Peplow demonstrates with example, uses results to make informed predictions (7:23).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 12
Binary Logistic Regression
Uses Real Statistics Add-In to analyze business example (4:48).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 14
How to Copy and Paste Filtered Data using FILL Option
Useful for creating scatterplots for multiple regression analysis (2:02)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 12
Creating Area Charts to Visualize Data
Shows how and when to create area charts (4:41).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 5
Excel Printing Problems, Solved
Leila Gharani shares tips and suggestions for efficient printing (10:50).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 1
How to do a Two Sample (Independent) t-Test in Excel
From David Dunaetz (8:45)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 9
Understanding Sample and Population Standard Deviations
Todd Grande Compares Excel's STDEV.S and STDEV.P functions (7:46)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 8
How to Use STANDARDIZE Function
Demonstration with student GPAs (1:39)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 3

International RelationsAll IR

Patrick T. Brandt
University of Texas at Dallas, see replication page.
Authors | IR
Counter Trafficking Data Collaborative
The first global data hub on human trafficking, with data contributed by counter-trafficking organizations around t...
Data Sites | IR
Jonathan M. Powell
Univ. of Central Florida, see coup d'etat dataset.
Authors | IR
Terrorism in W. Europe: Events Data
Contains information on events related to internal (or domestic) terrorism in 18 West European countries for the 19...
Data Sites | IR
Issue Correlates of War (ICOW)
A research project that is collecting systematic data on contentious issues in world politics.
Data Sites | IR
Integrated Crisis Early Warning System
A comprehensive, integrated, automated, generalizable, and validated system to monitor, assess, and forecast nation...
Data Sites | IR
Christopher Gelpi
Ohio State University, see datasets.
Authors | IR
Paul Huth
University of Maryland, see dataverse.
Authors | IR
Rising Powers Diplomatic Network
Monitors the distribution of the diplomatic apparatus of emerging powers across the globe.
Data Sites | IR
GROWup - Geographical Research On War, Unified Platform
offers a visualization of settlement patterns of politically active ethnic groups around the world from 1946-2013
Data Sites | IR

Comparative PoliticsAll CP

Arjan H. Schakel
Maastricht University
Authors | Comp. Politics
Standardized World Income Inequality Database, The
Goal of project is to maximize the comparability of income inequality data while maintaining the widest possible co...
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Romain Wacziarg
UCLA School of Management
Authors | Comp. Politics
Political Studies
RSS | International journal publishes research in all areas of politics and international relations
Journals | Comp. Politics
Educational Attainment Dataset
Focus on 1950-2010
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
State Antiquity Index
This dataset gives a score from 0 to 50 for the presence of a supra-tribal polity within the present-day boundaries...
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Archigos
A data base on leaders 1875 - 2004.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Electoral Systems & the Personal Vote
Colorado State University - Pueblo
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Matthew Golder
Penn State Univ., see research page.
Authors | Comp. Politics
Acta Politica
One of the few truly international political science journals with a broad scope across the discipline (published b...
Journals | Comp. Politics

It's Better with MusicComplete soundtrack

Pandora
Works great and is fun way to discover new music.
It's Better with Music
Space Travel Radio
The exploration of sounds for star citizens.
It's Better with Music
Baby Mammoth - Binks
It's Better with Music
Autograf - Dream
It's Better with Music
Sunlounger - Aguas Blancas (Chillout Mix)
It's Better with Music
Ben Böhmer DJ Set in Sky over Turkey
Needs description
It's Better with Music

American PoliticsAll American politics

Biographical Directory of Members of Congress
Needs description
Data Sites | Am. Politics
James Stimson
Univ. of North Carolina, see data page.
Authors | Am. Politics
Katherine Levine Einstein
Needs description
Authors | Am. Politics
Frederick J. Boehmke
Univ. of Iowa, see methods & replication page.
Authors | Am. Politics
Publius: The Journal of Federalism
RSS | Publishes latest developments, trends, and empirical and theoretical work on federalism.
Journals | Am. Politics
Peter Enns
Cornell University, see research.
Authors | Am. Politics
Matthew Levendusky
University of Pennsylvania, see dataverse.
Authors | Am. Politics
David Darmofal
Univ. of South Carolina, see dataverse.
Authors | Am. Politics
Christopher Olds
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, see dataverse.
Authors | Am. Politics
Carl Klarner
See datasets.
Authors | Am. Politics

Author Replication DataAll authors

David Darmofal
Univ. of South Carolina, see dataverse.
Authors | Am. Politics
Jonathan Nagler
Needs description
Authors
Erik Gahner Larsen
Univ. of Kent, see replication data on publications page.
Authors | Pol. Behavior
Joseph D. Ura
Texas A&M University
Authors | Law & Courts
Kenneth Lowande
Univ. of Michigan, see datasets on research page.
Authors | Am. Politics
Carlisle Rainey
Needs description
Authors
Vera Troeger
University of Warwick, see replication data
Authors | Comp. Politics
Christopher Paik
Needs description
Authors | Asian Politics
Joshua Kalla
Needs description
Authors | Pol. Behavior
Vincenzo Emanuele
LUISS Guido Carli (Italy)
Authors | Comp. Politics

European PoliticsAll 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
Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti Foundation
Applied and policy-oriented research on labor markets, immigration and welfare systems in Europe
Data Sites | European Politics
UK Data Service
Includes major UK government-sponsored surveys, cross-national surveys, longitudinal studies, UK census data, inter...
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
Members of the European Parliament Survey Data
The data allow for comparison of MEPs' views with those of the EU public, European Parliament candidates, and membe...
Data Sites | European Politics
German Socio-Economic Panel
A longitudinal survey of households in Germany from 1984 to 2016. Variables include household composition, employme...
Data Sites | European Politics
Swedish National Election Studies
Aims to explain why people vote as they do and why an election ends in a particular way. See data page.
Data Sites | European Politics
European Quality of Life Survey
Carried out every four years, this unique, pan-European survey examines both the objective circumstances of Europea...
Data Sites | European Politics
Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey
The attitudes, values and beliefs of the people in Northern Ireland to a wide range of social policy issues.
Data Sites | European Politics
Economic Fata from European Bank for Reconstruction & Development
Macro-economic and structural data series, includes the Life in Transition Survey.
Data Sites | European Politics

African PoliticsAll African politics

Africa Research Institute Blog
Encourages debate, questions orthodoxy and challenges “received wisdom” in and about Africa.
Blogs | African Politics
Climate Change & African Pol. Stability
This program analyzes how climate change could impact African and international security, see data page
Data Sites | African Politics
Abhit Bhandari
Needs description
Authors | African Politics
Nat'l Institute of Statistics of Rwanda
Collects and archives key national data.
Data Sites | African Politics
Statistics South Africa
Data on people, economy, and living conditions.
Data Sites | African Politics
Chris Blattman
Harris School of Public Policy at the Univ. of Chicago, see datasets on research page.
Authors | 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
Peter Van der Windt
NYU - Abu Dhabi
Authors | African Politics
Center for the Study of African Econ.
Researching on the economic and social development in Africa since 1986, includes Free and Fair Elections Database
Data Sites | African Politics
Horacio Larreguy
Needs description
Authors | African Politics

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When State Building Backfires: Elite Coordination and Popular Grievance in RebellionAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Francisco Garfias; Emily A. Sellars (2022 est.)
	Journal Data \| More Journals


Paths of Recruitment: Rational Social Prospecting in Petition CanvassingAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
*Clayton Nall; Benjamin Schneer; Daniel Carpenter (2018)
	Journal Data \| More Journals


Courting Informal Workers: Exclusion, Forbearance, and the LeftAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
German Feierherd (2022 est.)
	Journal Data \| More Journals


Foreign Aid and Undeserved Credit ClaimingAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Cesi Cruz; Christina Schneider (2017)
	Journal Data \| More Journals


Party Control, Party Competition and Public Service PerformanceAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
George A. Boyne; *Oliver James; Peter John; Nicolai Petrovsky (2012)
	Journal Data \| More Journals


Offsetting Uncertainty: Reassurance with Two-Sided Incomplete InformationAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Kyle Haynes; Brandon Yoder (2020)
	Journal Data \| More Journals


The Moderating Effect of Debates on Political AttitudesAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Sarah Brierley; *Eric Kramon; George Kwaku Ofosu (2020)
	Journal Data \| More Journals


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

Journal of Politics Dataverse
For articles published since 2015.
	Journal Archives

Judicial Workload, Jury Verdicts & Crime Data
Links compiled by Harvard Law School Library.
	Data Sites \| Law & Courts

Charles Stewart's Congress Data Page
Great resource on Congressional Committees
	Data Sites \| Am. Politics

Human Rights Data Analysis Group
A non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations ar...
	Data Sites \| Comp. Politics

Freedom House
Produces data on a number of core thematic issues related to democracy, political rights and civil liberties.
	Data Sites \| Comp. Politics

Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey
The attitudes, values and beliefs of the people in Northern Ireland to a wide range of social policy issues.
	Data Sites \| European Politics

European Central Bank Statistical Data Warehouse
Economic indicators for Euro area.
	Data Sites \| European Politics

Robert L. Ostergard
University of Nevada, Reno, see datasets
	Authors \| Comp. Politics

Public Management Review
RSS \| PMR promotes the dissemination and discussion of such research about public management. Its target audience is the ...
	Journals \| Public Administration

Studies in Am. Political Development
RSS \| Articles focus on American governmental institutions over time and on their social, economic and cultural setting.
	Journals \| Am. Politics

Latin American Perspectives
A theoretical and scholarly journal for discussion and debate on the political economy of capitalism, imperialism, ...
	Journals \| Latin American Politics

Ballpark, The
LSE US Centre's regular online audio show on US politics, policy, and research.
	Podcasts \| Am. Politics

Journal of Political Science Education
RSS \| focuses on teaching and learning about politics
	Journals \| Teaching and Learning

War on the Rocks
A platform for analysis, commentary, debate and multimedia content on foreign policy and national security issues t...
	Blogs \| IR

Social Media & Politics
A popular science podcast bringing you first-hand insights into how social media is changing the political game.
	Podcasts

Harvard Univ. Press Blog - Political Science
News about HUP's political science publications
	Blogs

British Journal of Political Science
RSS \| Contributions are drawn from all fields of political science, widely recognized as one of the premier journals.
	Journals

U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress
Pres. Arthur's Positions: 47th House 47th Senate 48th House 48th 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

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

DeclareDesign
A set of software tools for describing, assessing, and conducting empirical research.
	Teaching Resources

Helipad Codex
Agent-based modeling in Python.
	Teaching Resources

Center for Systemic Peace's YouTube Channel
Great set of concise videos to supplement courses on international relations.
	Teaching Resources