Political Science Data, Methods, and Replication Resources

THIS WEEK'S THEME: Research Design, Research Ethics, and Evidence of Causation

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Political Science Data Podcast: African Politics Today

(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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Introduction to SPSS

From Jeff Galak, Data Demystified (9:34).

Box Plot of Hillary Clinton Rating by Party ID Demo.

Box plots of interval variable by factor, weighted observations..

LEARN HOW: Watch Lecture Videos for Essentials of Political Analysis, Video Tutorials for R, Stata, SPSS, and Excel

Special Features

Studying Donald Trump

Modern Mexican Politics

Online Survey Quality

Politics of Gun Violence

Special Edition: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

The Russia-Ukraine War

Find Data

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

Real Time Event Data / Phoenix

Facilitates access to new and existing Swedish research data..

Swedish National Data Service

Captures election results, national referenda, changes in government, and institutional reforms for a range of countries, within and beyond the EU..

Political Data Yearbook

Conducts repeated social surveys to study the attitudes and behavior of Japanese people comprehensively..

Japanese General Social Surveys

The site helps ordinary citizens find and track bills in the U.S. Congress and understand their representatives' legislative record..

GovTrack.us

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Teach Political Analysis

Use our Interactive Syllabus Builder to create a course outline with ease! Integrate the classic text, Essentials of Political Analysis, with Companions for SPSS, Stata, Excel & R.

MORE FOR TEACHERS: Sample Syllabi, Classroom Resources, Teaching Assistant App (for term review), and Online R Demos.

ORIGINAL PROJECT: Studying Presidents

Pres. Grover Cleveland'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.