Political Science Data, Methods, and Replication Resources

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The Russia-Ukraine War

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Global Terrorism Database

start.umd.edu

Open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2017, now includes more than 180,000 cases, from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism .

Real Time Event Data / Phoenix

eventdata.utdallas.edu

Event data on political and social events around the globe, along with the software and methodology needed to analyze the data..

German Reichstag Election Data, 1871-1912

icpsr.umich.edu

Electoral data at the wahlkreis and staat levels for the Reichstag elections..

Who Governs?

whogoverns.eu

A database of who governs in Europe and beyond..

Comparative Political Data Set

cpds-data.org

Collection of political and institutional country-level data. It consists of annual data for 36 democratic countries for the period of 1960 to 2015 or since their transition to democracy..

Teach Political Analysis

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ORIGINAL PROJECT: Studying Presidents

Pres. Thomas Jefferson'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.