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Articles with Replication DataAlso see Journal Data Archives | Author Replication Data

Freedom of the Press and Public ResponsivenessAbstract | Data | Find Text
Stuart Soroka; Dan Hiashutter-Rice; Christopher Wlezien (Forthcoming)
Journal Archives | More Journals
Can Elites Escape Blame by Explaining Themselves? Suspicion and the Limits of Elite ExplanationsAbstract | Data | Find Text
Joshua Robison (Forthcoming)
Journal Archives | More Journals
International Constraints and Electoral Decisions: Does the Room to Maneuver Attenuate Economic Voting?Abstract | Data | Find Text
Spyros Kosmidis (2018)
Journal Archives | More Journals
Foreign Aid and Undeserved Credit ClaimingAbstract | Data | Find Text
Cesi Cruz; Christina Schneider (2017)
Journal Archives | More Journals
Discrimination in Public AccommodationsAbstract | Data | Find Text
Anna Harvey; Emily West (2020)
Journal Archives | More Journals
Reconsidering Tolerance: Insights from Political Theory and Three ExperimentsAbstract | Data | Find Text
Calvert W. Jones; Teresa M. Bejan (2021)
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


Asset Specificity, Corporate Protection and Trade Policy: Firm-level Evidence from Antidumping Petitions in 19 JurisdictionsAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Benjamin C.K. Egerod; Mogens K. Justesen (Forthcoming)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


The Conditional Nature of Political Risk: How Home Institutions Influence the Location of Foreign Direct InvestmentAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Quintin Beazer; Daniel Blake (2018)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals

Ideology Justifies Morality: Political Beliefs Predict Moral FoundationsAbstract | Data | Find Text
Peter Hatemi; *Charles Crabtree; Kevin Smith (2019)
Journal Archives | More Journals

Find DatasetsAll topical collections

Am. Political Science Rev. Dataverse
Replication datasets for articles published in APSR
Journal Archives
Eurostat
The statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its mission is to provide high quality statist...
Data Sites | European Politics
Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict
Measures reports of the conflict-related sexual violence committed by armed actors (state forces, pro-government mi...
Data Sites | IR
Erik Gartzke
Univ. California at San Diego, see datasets
Authors | IR
International Studies Quarterly Dataverse
Replication datasets for articles published in ISQ. Also see ISQ legacy archive.
Journal Archives | IR
KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Extensive economic research, including Globalization Index.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Datasets on Democratic Deepening and Regression
DEDERE Project on the causes of democratic deepening and regression.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Nat'l Conf. of State Legislatures
NCSL research and special features contain a wealth of informatiom about state legislatures
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Educational Attainment Dataset
Focus on 1950-2010
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
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Share InsightsAll poli sci journals | blogs | podcasts

War on the Rocks
A platform for analysis, commentary, debate and multimedia content on foreign policy and national security issues t...
Blogs | IR
Social Science Quarterly
Publishes current research on a broad range of topics including political science, sociology, economics, history, s...
Journals
Politics and the Life Sciences
RSS | Official journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, an American Political Science Association (...
Journals
Political Studies Review
A peer-reviewed journal that provides a unique intellectual space for high-quality original research in political s...
Journals
Research and Politics
This journal focuses on short (4,000 word) articles that are easily accessible but that are also methodologically r...
Journals
Australian Journal of Political Science
RSS | Official journal of the Australian Political Studies Association.
Journals
Political Behavior
RSS | Publishes original research in the general fields of political behavior, institutions, processes, and policies.
Journals | Pol. Behavior
Journal of Political Science
Published annually by the South Carolina Political Science Association
Journals | Am. Politics
Political Psychology
RSS | The journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, dedicated to the analysis of psychological and po...
Journals | Pol. Behavior
British Politics and Policy
From the London School of Economics.
Blogs | European Politics

Original Projects & Publications

U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress
Pres. Hayes's Positions:
45th House 45th Senate
46th House 46th Senate
American Politics
Political Science Teaching Assistant Program
What is a Correlation Matrix?
A table showing the relationships among discrete measures.Hover 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

Grafiti: Search Engine for Charts
Helps you search, discover & share charts from top publishers.
Teaching Resources
Advanced Quantitative Research Methodology Class
Gary King's Harvard University course web site includes lecture notes and other resources.
Teaching Resources
CoMSES Net
An international network with the goal of advancing agent based modeling in the social and ecological sciences, see...
Teaching Resources
GNU PSPP Statistics Software
A free, open source replacement for the proprietary program SPSS.
Teaching Resources
Desmos
Graph functions, plot data, evaluate equations, explore transformations, and share with students.
Teaching Resources
Data Driven Documents
D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML,...
Teaching Resources
Teach Remotely: How to Teach From Anywhere
Dartmouth College site compiles a variety of resources and services to help you make the transition to teaching rem...
Teaching Resources
Flourish: Data Visualization and Storytelling
Free plans available for educational use of public data.
Teaching Resources
Political Science Games
Classroom resources and activities, blog, great for online classes
Teaching Resources
Center for Systemic Peace's YouTube Channel
Great set of concise videos to supplement courses on international relations.
Teaching Resources

Watch and LearnAll Excel tutorials | teaching resources

How to Perform a Chi-Square Test for Independence
Includes making table of expected values, from Eugene O'Loughlin (8:42).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 10
Excel Printing Problems, Solved
Leila Gharani shares tips and suggestions for efficient printing (10:50).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 1
Analyzing Residuals from Multiple Regression
Cindy Roberts demonstrates with movie revenue example (5:59).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 13
How to Conduct a Chi-Square Test
From Todd Grande (8:03).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 10
How to Install Real Statistics Add-In
Expands the statistical capabilities of Excel (11:50).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 1
Creating a Boxplot
Tutorial from Todd Grande (12:03).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 5
Two-Way ANOVA with Replication using Data Analysis Tools
From Todd Grande (12:42)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 10
How to Conduct Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Graph Results
From Amy Dykstra (9:01)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 10
How to Copy and Paste Filtered Data using FILL Option
Useful for creating scatterplots for multiple regression analysis (2:02)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 12
How to Use NORM.DIST and NORM.INV Functions in Excel
From Learn Something (6:12)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 8

International RelationsAll IR

International Interactions Dataverse
Replication data, beginning with volume 36, issue 2 of 2010, current through at least 2018.
Journal Archives | IR
UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset
A dataset of armed conflicts, both internal and external, in the period 1946 to the present.
Data Sites | IR
Saideman's Semi-Spew
Wide ranging thoughts on international relations, ethnic conflict, civil-military relations, academia, and politics...
Blogs | IR
Computational Event Data System
Uses automated coding of news reports, focusing on the Middle East, Balkans, and West Africa, for statistical early...
Data Sites | IR
James D. Morrow
Univ. of Michigan, see datasets.
Authors | IR
Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict
Measures reports of the conflict-related sexual violence committed by armed actors (state forces, pro-government mi...
Data Sites | IR
TERRIER
Stands for temporally extended, regular, reproducible international event records, is a new machine coded event dat...
Data Sites | IR
International Security
RSS | Publishes articles on the full range of contemporary security issues. Its articles address traditional topics, such...
Journals | IR
Journal of Conflict Resolution
RSS | Links to replication data in tables of contents.
Journal Archives | IR
Foreign Policy Analysis Dataverse
Replication datasets for articles beginning in 2016.
Journal Archives | IR

Comparative PoliticsAll CP

Margaret E. Roberts
Univ. of California, San Diego
Authors | Comp. Politics

Project on Democratic Accountability & Citizen-Politician Linkages
Data collection in more than 80 electoral democracies. The expert surveys for data collection were done in 2008 and...
	Data Sites \| Comp. Politics

Andreas Wimmer
Columbia University
Authors | Comp. Politics
Thomson Robert
Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)
Authors | Comp. Politics
Gerald Schneider
Universitat Konstanz, see replication data.
Authors | Comp. Politics
Robert J. Franzese Jr.
Univ. of Michigan, replication files on publications page.
Authors | Comp. Politics
Comparative Political Data Set
Collection of political and institutional country-level data. It consists of annual data for 36 democratic countrie...
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Matthew Golder
Penn State Univ., see research page.
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
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

American PoliticsAll American politics

US Presidential Elections Data
With some cool visualizations of the data.
Data Sites | Am. Politics
James Druckman
Northwestern Univ., see replication data on publications page.
Authors | Am. Politics
Open States by the Sunlight Foundation
A collection of tools that make it possible for citizens to track what is happening in their state's capitol by agg...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
US Policy Agendas Project
Collects and organizes data from various archived sources to trace changes in the national policy agenda and public...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Commonwealth: A Journal of Pennsylvania Politics & Policy
Peer-reviewed journal from the Pennsylvania Political Science Association that publishes original research in all s...
Journals | Am. Politics
Congressional Bills Project
information about more than 400,000 bills introduced in the U.S. Congress, currently 1947-2008, along with extensiv...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Voteview Legacy Website
Keith Poole's web site for data on U.S. Congress, well-organized, thoroughly documented, updated frequently.
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Congress, Two Beers In
Government Affairs Institute's Senior Fellows discuss current congressional politics.
Podcasts | Am. Politics
Biographical Directory of Members of Congress
Needs description
Data Sites | Am. Politics
State Networks Dataset
A compilation of many state-to-state relational variables, including measures of shared borders, travel and trade b...
Data Sites | Am. Politics

Author Replication DataAll authors

Arjan H. Schakel
Maastricht University
Authors | Comp. Politics
Daniel Lewis
Needs description
Authors
Dean Knox
Needs description
Authors
Erik Voeten
Georgetown, see data page
Authors | IR
Andrew B. Hall
Stanford University
Authors | Voting & Elections
Matthew Levendusky
University of Pennsylvania, see dataverse.
Authors | Am. Politics
Kosuke Imai
Needs description
Authors | Methodology
Frederick Solt
Needs description
Authors
Dan Wood
Texas A & M, see replication data for his books.
Authors | Am. Politics
Louis Putterman
Brown Univ. (Econ. Dept)
Authors | Comp. Politics

European PoliticsAll 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
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
Chapel Hill Expert Survey
Estimate party positioning on European integration, ideology and policy issues for national parties in a variety of...
Data Sites | European Politics
European Election Studies
About electoral participation and voting behavior in European Parliament elections.
Data Sites | European Politics
Francois Briatte
European School of Political and Social Sciences, see research page.
Authors | European Politics
EU Open Data Portal
Provides access to an expanding range of data from the European Union (EU) institutions and other EU bodies.
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

German Institute on Radicalization and De-radicalization Studies
A research and network initiative focusing solely on the theory and practice of de-radicalization and counter-radic...
	Data Sites \| European Politics

VoteWatch Europe
Provides a data-based overview of EU politics.
Data Sites | European Politics
Dutch Parliamentary Voting Dataset
Voting behaviour in the Dutch parliament.
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
Peter Van der Windt
NYU - Abu Dhabi
Authors | 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
African Affairs
Published on behalf of the Royal African Society, the top ranked journal in African Studies, an inter-disciplinary ...
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
Horacio Larreguy
Needs description
Authors | African Politics
Ufahamu Africa
Life and politics on the continent.
Podcasts | African Politics
Africa Information Highway
Multiple customized tools to gather indicators, analyze them, and export them into multiple formats.
Data Sites | African Politics
Chris Blattman
Harris School of Public Policy at the Univ. of Chicago, see datasets on research page.
Authors | African Politics
Nat'l Institute of Statistics of Rwanda
Collects and archives key national data.
Data Sites | African Politics

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Freedom of the Press and Public ResponsivenessAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Stuart Soroka; Dan Hiashutter-Rice; Christopher Wlezien (Forthcoming)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Can Elites Escape Blame by Explaining Themselves? Suspicion and the Limits of Elite ExplanationsAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Joshua Robison (Forthcoming)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


International Constraints and Electoral Decisions: Does the Room to Maneuver Attenuate Economic Voting?Abstract \| Data \| Find Text
Spyros Kosmidis (2018)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


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


Discrimination in Public AccommodationsAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Anna Harvey; Emily West (2020)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Reconsidering Tolerance: Insights from Political Theory and Three ExperimentsAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Calvert W. Jones; Teresa M. Bejan (2021)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Ideology Justifies Morality: Political Beliefs Predict Moral FoundationsAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Peter Hatemi; *Charles Crabtree; Kevin Smith (2019)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals

Am. Political Science Rev. Dataverse
Replication datasets for articles published in APSR
	Journal Archives

Eurostat
The statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its mission is to provide high quality statist...
	Data Sites \| European Politics

Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict
Measures reports of the conflict-related sexual violence committed by armed actors (state forces, pro-government mi...
	Data Sites \| IR

Erik Gartzke
Univ. California at San Diego, see datasets
	Authors \| IR

Nat'l Conf. of State Legislatures
NCSL research and special features contain a wealth of informatiom about state legislatures
	Data Sites \| Am. Politics

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

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

International Studies Quarterly Dataverse
Replication datasets for articles published in ISQ. Also see ISQ legacy archive.
	Journal Archives \| IR

KOF Swiss Economic Institute
Extensive economic research, including Globalization Index.
	Data Sites \| Comp. Politics

Datasets on Democratic Deepening and Regression
DEDERE Project on the causes of democratic deepening and regression.
	Data Sites \| Comp. Politics

Educational Attainment Dataset
Focus on 1950-2010
	Data Sites \| Comp. Politics

Social Science Quarterly
Publishes current research on a broad range of topics including political science, sociology, economics, history, s...
	Journals

Politics and the Life Sciences
RSS \| Official journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, an American Political Science Association (...
	Journals

Political Studies Review
A peer-reviewed journal that provides a unique intellectual space for high-quality original research in political s...
	Journals

Research and Politics
This journal focuses on short (4,000 word) articles that are easily accessible but that are also methodologically r...
	Journals

Australian Journal of Political Science
RSS \| Official journal of the Australian Political Studies Association.
	Journals

Political Behavior
RSS \| Publishes original research in the general fields of political behavior, institutions, processes, and policies.
	Journals \| Pol. Behavior

Journal of Political Science
Published annually by the South Carolina Political Science Association
	Journals \| Am. Politics

Political Psychology
RSS \| The journal of the International Society of Political Psychology, dedicated to the analysis of psychological and po...
	Journals \| Pol. Behavior

British Politics and Policy
From the London School of Economics.
	Blogs \| European Politics

U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress
Pres. Hayes's Positions: 45th House 45th Senate 46th House 46th Senate
	American Politics

Political Science Teaching Assistant Program
What is a Correlation Matrix?
A table showing the relationships among discrete measures.Hover 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