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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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A research project that is collecting systematic data on contentious issues in world politics..

Issue Correlates of War (ICOW)

Comprehensive social science analysis of Austrian national elections..

Austrian National Election Study

University of Illinois center supports research on variety of fronts, see projects page...

Cline Center for Advanced Social Research

Serves as a broker between a range of data providers and the research community..

National Archive & Records Service of South Africa

Analysis of labor markets, social security incomes, institutions and governance..

Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies

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Scholarly work on all aspects of the European integration process..

Journal of European Integration

Features research that utilizes experimental methods or experimental reasoning based on naturally occurring data..

Journal of Experimental Political Science

A quarterly journal which was launched in 1980 to fill a genuine academic need for a forum for work in this multidisciplinary area..

History of Political Thought

General interest journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association..

Polity

An international, peer-reviewed, philosophical quarterly devoted to the stimulation and communication of research in value studies.

Journal of Value Inquiry

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Pres. Abraham Lincoln's Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress

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