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Journal of Peace Research Datasets
Access to the datasets used by authors of articles appearing in Journal of Peace Research since 1998.
Journal Archives | IR
Roper Center
Public opinion surveys from U.S. and around the world.
Data Sites | Public Opinion Surveys
Cosponsorship Network Data
This page contains links to data on Cosponsorships in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives for the 93r...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Todd S. Sechser
University of Virginia, find replication data on research page
Authors | IR
Journal of Conflict Resolution
RSS | Links to replication data in tables of contents.
Journal Archives | IR
World Values Survey
The WVS consists of nationally representative surveys conducted in almost 100 countries which contain almost 90 per...
Data Sites | Public Opinion Surveys
Longitudinal Study of American Life
A national study on the thinking and life experiences of Generation X.
Data Sites | Public Opinion Surveys
Religious Data: Association of Religion Data Archives
More than public opinion surveys, but public opinion surveys are biggest category of religious data
Data Sites | Public Opinion Surveys
U.S. Elections Project
an information source for the United States electoral system.
Data Sites | Voting & Elections
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Statistical Data Collections

Share InsightsAll poli sci journals | blogs | podcasts

American Review of Public Admin.
RSS | An academic journal in the field of public affairs and public administration
Journals | Public Administration
Annual Review of Political Science
RSS | Outlines major developments in field.
Journals
Legislative Studies Quarterly
RSS | Devoted to research on representative assemblies.
Journals
Journal of Politics
RSS | Published for the Southern Political Science Association.
Journals
Rights Track, The
Gets the hard facts about the human rights challenges facing the world today and aims to get our thinking about hum...
Podcasts
State and Local Government Review
RSS | Official journal of the Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management (SIAM) of the American Society f...
Journals | Public Administration
Review of Politics, The
Primarily philosophical and historical studies of politics, especially those concentrating on political theory and ...
Journals | Political Theory
Int'l J. of Law, Crime and Justice
Refereed journal for high quality research and analysis in the areas of socio-legal studies and the psychology of l...
Journals | Law & Courts
Law & Policy
RSS | Embraces varied research methodologies that interrogate law, governance, and public policy worldwide.
Journals
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Political Science Journals

Original Projects & Publications

U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress
Pres. Monroe's Positions: 15th House 15th Senate 16th House 16th Senate 17th House 17th Senate 18th House 18th Senate
	American Politics

Political Science Teaching Assistant Program
What is a response rate?
the proportion of respondents selected for participation in a survey who actually participateHover over to see answer
	TA Program: Research Methods

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

R - Learning By Example
Materials from Dave Armstrong's three-day ICPSR course.
Teaching Resources
Interactive Statistical Pages
A compilation of links to web pages that perform statistical calculations.
Teaching Resources
Statistics and Probability Course
From Khan Academy, adapts to your level and tracks your progress
Teaching Resources
StatLab at University of Virginia
Consultations, collaborations, and training in support of data science, applied statistics, and scientific computin...
Teaching Resources
Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR)
Portable online aids for probability and statistics education, technology based instruction and statistical computi...
Teaching Resources
NetLogo
A multi-agent programmable modeling environment. Site contains instructions, examples, see NetLogo Web to run examp...
Teaching Resources
CoMSES Net
An international network with the goal of advancing agent based modeling in the social and ecological sciences, see...
Teaching Resources
Free Code Camp
Our mission: to help people learn to code for free. We accomplish this by creating thousands of videos, articles, a...
Teaching Resources
Lindsay Mayka's YouTube Channel
Collection of short videos for undergrad poli sci methods course.
Teaching Resources
Practical Exemplars on the Analysis of Surveys (PEAS)
Aims to help social researchers analyze complex surveys.
Teaching Resources

Watch and LearnAll Excel tutorials | teaching resources

Cross Tabulation With Frequencies and Percentages
Shows how to calculate values and format PivotTable (15:12).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 4
Binary Logistic Regression
Uses Real Statistics Add-In to analyze business example (4:48).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 14
Charts & Graphs to Visualize Quantitative Data
Shows how and when to create different types of charts (34:32).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 5
How to Generate Uniformly Distributed Random Numbers
Using the Data Analysis Toolpak (6:08)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 8
Pivot Table Fields Pane Options
Good overview of Pivot Table options (4:21).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 7
How to Use Descriptive Statistics Tool
Demonstrates with data on heights (2:37).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 2
Excel Pivot Tables Explained
Leila Gharani uses PivotTables to summarize sales data by other variables, like sales by product (13:21).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 4
Excel Slicers, Inside Out
Mynda Treacy shows how to set-up and use slicers (13:04).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 7
Regression with Multiple Dummy Variables and Interaction Terms
Alym Amlani demonstrates with simple business example (8:11)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 12
How to Create Dummy Variables
Taylor Smith demonstrates by converting categorical variable into dummy variables (7:25)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 3

International RelationsAll IR

Barbara Walter
UC San Diego, datasets listed in selected publications section.
Authors | IR
Andrew Owsiak
Univ. of Georgia, see datasets on research page.
Authors | IR
Aila M. Matanock
Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, replication data on research page
Authors | IR
Paul Huth
University of Maryland, see dataverse.
Authors | IR
Change in Source of Leader Support
The goal of the CHISOLS data is to differentiate leader transitions in which a new leader depends on different soci...
Data Sites | IR
Ethnic Power Relations Datasets
Data on ethnic groups’ access to state power, their settlement patterns, links to rebel organizations, transborde...
Data Sites | IR
Angela D. Nichols
Florida Atlantic Univ., datasets on research page.
Authors | IR
Journal of Conflict Resolution
Focuses on conflict between and within states, but also explores a variety of inter-group and interpersonal conflic...
Journals | IR
Global Terrorism Database
Open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2017, now include...
Data Sites | IR
Erik Gartzke
Univ. California at San Diego, see datasets
Authors | IR

Comparative PoliticsAll CP

Pippa Norris
Harvard Univ., see data page.
Authors | Comp. Politics
Rachel Brule
Needs description
Authors | Comp. Politics
Canadian Journal of Political Science
RSS | Primary forum for innovative research on Canadian politics and government.
Journals | Comp. Politics
Miriam Golden
UCLA, see dataverse.
Authors | Comp. Politics
Israel National Election Studies
Aims to investigate voting patterns, public opinion, and political participation in Israel.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Environmental Performance Index
Ranks 180 countries on 24 performance indicators across ten issue categories covering environmental health and ecos...
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Caucasus Research Resource Centers
A network of research, resource and training centers established in 2003 in the capital cities of Armenia, Azerbaij...
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Diego Puga
CEMFI, see data.
Authors | Comp. Politics
Vincenzo Emanuele
LUISS Guido Carli (Italy)
Authors | Comp. Politics
Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization Dataset
An ethnic fractionalization index for 165 countries across all continents. The dataset covers annually the period 1...
Data Sites | Comp. Politics

American PoliticsAll American politics

California J. of Politics & Policy
Online journal of original scholarship, research, and commentary on national, state, and local government, electora...
Journals | Am. Politics
Keith E. Lee Jr.
Georgia College, replication datasets on publication page.
Authors | Am. Politics
Jason H. Windett
UNC-Charlotte, see data page.
Authors | Am. Politics
Weeds Podcast, The
Vox's podcast for politics and policy discussions on important national issues, including healthcare immigration, a...
Podcasts | Am. Politics
State Policy Index
State and Local Public Policies in the United States is an ongoing research project and data compendium. On this we...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
President in Congress, The
Explores the impact of the president on legislators' voting and position taking, on their communications with const...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Jon Rogowski
Needs description
Authors | Am. Politics
David Darmofal
Univ. of South Carolina, see dataverse.
Authors | Am. Politics
Religion Data Archives
A collection of surveys, polls, and other data submitted by researchers and made available online by the ARDA.
Data Sites | Am. Politics
State Politics & Policy Q. Dataverse
Growing collection of replication datasets, as early as 2013.
Journal Archives | Am. Politics

European PoliticsAll European politics

European Central Bank Statistical Data Warehouse
Economic indicators for Euro area.
Data Sites | European Politics
British Election Study
Long term studies of Britain's electoral behavior.
Data Sites | European Politics
Journal of European Public Policy
RSS | One of the flagship journals in the study of public policy, European politics and the EU.
Journals | 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
West European Politics
RSS | One of the most authoritative journals covering politics, government and public policy in Western Europe.
Journals | 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
European Election Studies
About electoral participation and voting behavior in European Parliament elections.
Data Sites | European Politics
Italian Political Science Review Dataverse
Data and code replication material for articles published in IPSR.
Journal Archives | European Politics
Democracy Audit
Independent organisation based at the LSE for research into the quality and effectiveness of UK democracy.
Blogs | European Politics

African PoliticsAll African politics

Elliott Green
Needs description
Authors | African Politics
African Dev. Bank Group Data Portal
Access to information on lending projects from 1967 up to now, the dataset includes basic information such as the p...
Data Sites | 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
Daniel de Kadt
Needs description
Authors | African Politics
Jessica Gottlieb
Needs description
Authors | 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
Nat'l Institute of Statistics of Rwanda
Collects and archives key national data.
Data Sites | African Politics
Jeremy Horowitz
Needs description
Authors | African Politics
Eric Kramon
Needs description
Authors | African Politics
Afrobarometer Data Collection
An African-led series of national public attitude surveys on democracy and governance in Africa
Data Sites | African Politics


Presidential Approval and the Inherited EconomyAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
*Michael Sances (Forthcoming)
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Political Representation and Effects of Municipal MergersAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Janne Tukiainen (2021)
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Discrimination in Public AccommodationsAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Anna Harvey; Emily West (2020)
	Journal Data \| More Journals


Partisan Gaps in Political Information and Information-Seeking Behavior: Motivated Reasoning or Cheerleading?Abstract \| Data \| Find Text
*Erik Peterson; Shanto Iyengar (2021)
	Journal Data \| More Journals


Inequality, Labor Market Segmentation, and Preferences for RedistributionAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
James Alt; Torben Iversen (2017)
	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


The Deservingness Heuristic and The Politics of Health CareAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Carsten Jensen; *Michael Bang Petersen (2017)
	Journal Data \| More Journals


The Two Income-Participation GapsAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Christopher Ojeda (2018)
	Journal Data \| More Journals


Extending Rights to Marginalized Minorities: Same-Sex Relationship Recognition in Mexico and the United StatesAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Victor Cruz-Aceves; Caroline Beer (2018)
	Journal Data \| More Journals


Interpretation: The Final Spatial FrontierAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Guy D. Whitten; *Laron K. Williams; Cameron Wimpy (2021)
	Journal Data \| More Journals

Journal of Peace Research Datasets
Access to the datasets used by authors of articles appearing in Journal of Peace Research since 1998.
	Journal Archives \| IR

Roper Center
Public opinion surveys from U.S. and around the world.
	Data Sites \| Public Opinion Surveys

Cosponsorship Network Data
This page contains links to data on Cosponsorships in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives for the 93r...
	Data Sites \| Am. Politics

Todd S. Sechser
University of Virginia, find replication data on research page
	Authors \| IR

Journal of Conflict Resolution
RSS \| Links to replication data in tables of contents.
	Journal Archives \| IR

World Values Survey
The WVS consists of nationally representative surveys conducted in almost 100 countries which contain almost 90 per...
	Data Sites \| Public Opinion Surveys

Longitudinal Study of American Life
A national study on the thinking and life experiences of Generation X.
	Data Sites \| Public Opinion Surveys

Religious Data: Association of Religion Data Archives
More than public opinion surveys, but public opinion surveys are biggest category of religious data
	Data Sites \| Public Opinion Surveys

U.S. Elections Project
an information source for the United States electoral system.
	Data Sites \| Voting & Elections

American Review of Public Admin.
RSS \| An academic journal in the field of public affairs and public administration
	Journals \| Public Administration

Annual Review of Political Science
RSS \| Outlines major developments in field.
	Journals

Legislative Studies Quarterly
RSS \| Devoted to research on representative assemblies.
	Journals

Journal of Politics
RSS \| Published for the Southern Political Science Association.
	Journals

Rights Track, The
Gets the hard facts about the human rights challenges facing the world today and aims to get our thinking about hum...
	Podcasts

State and Local Government Review
RSS \| Official journal of the Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management (SIAM) of the American Society f...
	Journals \| Public Administration

Review of Politics, The
Primarily philosophical and historical studies of politics, especially those concentrating on political theory and ...
	Journals \| Political Theory

Int'l J. of Law, Crime and Justice
Refereed journal for high quality research and analysis in the areas of socio-legal studies and the psychology of l...
	Journals \| Law & Courts

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

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

R - Learning By Example
Materials from Dave Armstrong's three-day ICPSR course.
	Teaching Resources