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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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How to Create Bar Charts to Visualize Comparisons Using SPSS i

By Philip Pollock & Barry Edwards (6:12).

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Logistic Regression, Simply Explained i

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Produces data on a number of core thematic issues related to democracy, political rights and civil liberties..

Freedom House

Developed at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies..

Global State Revenues & Expenditures

Stands for temporally extended, regular, reproducible international event records, is a new machine coded event dataset ranging from 1979 to 2016..

TERRIER

Data on ethnic groups' access to state power, their settlement patterns, links to rebel organizations, transborder ethnic kin relations, and intraethnic cleavages..

Ethnic Power Relations Datasets

A repository of detailed election results at the constituency level for lower house legislative elections from around the world.

Constituency-Level Elections Archive

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Encourages debate, questions orthodoxy and challenges received wisdom in and about Africa..

Africa Research Institute Blog

Published for the Southern Political Science Association..

Journal of Politics

Published quarterly in association with the Western Political Science Association..

Political Research Quarterly

Published for the Supreme Court Historical Society, the journal and the society are dedicated to the collection and preservation of the history of the Supreme Court..

Journal of Supreme Court History

An outlet for theoretically and empirically grounded research on policy process and policy analysis..

Policy Studies Journal

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Pres. Andrew Jackson'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.