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

ANES Scales Often Don't Measure What You Think They MeasureAbstract | Data | Find Text
Matthew Pietryka; Randall C. Macintosh (2022 est.)
Journal Archives | More Journals
Coalition Prospects and Policy Change: an Application to the EnvironmentAbstract | Data | Find Text
Mark A. Kayser; Jochen Rehmert (2021)
Journal Archives | More Journals
U.S. Patronage, State Capacity, and Civil ConflictAbstract | Data | Find Text
Matthew Digiuseppe; Patrick E. Shea (2022 est.)
Journal Archives | More Journals
Gender, Political Knowledge and Descriptive Representation: The Impact of Long-Term SocializationAbstract | Data | Find Text
*Ruth Dassonneville; Ian McAllister (2018)
Journal Archives | More Journals


The Social Dynamics of Collective Action: Evidence from the Diffusion of the Swing Riots, 1830-31Abstract \| Data \| Find Text
Gabriel Leon; Toke Aidt; Max Satchell (2022 est.)
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Strategies of Repression: Judicial and Extrajudicial Methods of Autocratic SurvivalAbstract | Data | Find Text
Fiona Shen-Bayh (2018)
Journal Archives | More Journals
Moderation and Competence: How a Party's Ideological Position Shapes Its Valence ReputationAbstract | Data | Find Text
Rob Johns; Ann-Kristin Kölln (2020)
Journal Archives | More Journals
Building Cooperation Among Groups in Conflict: An Experiment on Intersectarian Cooperation in LebanonAbstract | Data | Find Text
Han Il Chang; *Leonid Peisakhin (2019)
Journal Archives | More Journals


The Proposer or the Proposal? An Experimental Analysis of Constitutional BeliefsAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Kenneth Mori McElwain; Shusei Eshima; Christian G. Winkler (2021)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals

Dyadic Conflict: Elites, Citizens, and WarAbstract | Data | Find Text
Kristopher Ramsay; Colin Krainin (2022 est.)
Journal Archives | More Journals

Find DatasetsAll topical collections

International Studies Quarterly Dataverse
Replication datasets for articles published in ISQ. Also see ISQ legacy archive.
Journal Archives | IR
Religion Data Archives
A collection of surveys, polls, and other data submitted by researchers and made available online by the ARDA.
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Center for the Study of African Econ.
Researching on the economic and social development in Africa since 1986, includes Free and Fair Elections Database
Data Sites | African Politics
K. Chad Clay
University of Georgia, see research.
Authors | IR
Journal of Conflict Resolution
RSS | Links to replication data in tables of contents.
Journal Archives | IR
World Press Freedom Index
From Reporters Without Borders
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Brookings Inst. Vital Stats on Congress
Useful data on America's first branch of government, including data on the composition of its membership, its forma...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Transitional Justice Research Collaborative
data on three primary transitional justice mechanisms - human rights prosecutions, truth commissions, and amnesties...
Data Sites | Law & Courts
Congress Roll Call Vote Indexes
Useful, basic tables on roll call votes in House and Senate (101-present)
Data Sites | Am. Politics
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Statistical Data Collections

Share InsightsAll poli sci journals | blogs | podcasts

Administration & Society
RSS | Academic journal on public and human service organizations, their administrative processes and their effects on soc...
Journals | Public Administration
Strange Maps
comments on all kinds of intriguing maps - real, fictional, and what-if ones
Blogs
Perspectives on Politics
RSS | Seeks to provide a space for broad and synthetic discussion within the political science profession and between the...
Journals
Journal of Supreme Court History
RSS | Published for the Supreme Court Historical Society, the journal and the society are dedicated to the collection and...
Journals | Law & Courts
Center for Effective Global Action Blog
Comments on key issues related to poverty alleviation and global development.
Blogs
Weeds Podcast, The
Vox's podcast for politics and policy discussions on important national issues, including healthcare immigration, a...
Podcasts | Am. Politics
Academic and the Activist, The
Explores political science through the lens of an Academic and an Activist.
Podcasts
Public Administration
Publishes articles on all facets of public administration, public policy and public management.
Journals | Public Administration
Policy Sciences
RSS | An interdisciplinary and international focus to the study of policy.
Journals | Public Policy
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Political Science Journals

Original Projects & Publications

U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress
Pres. Taft's Positions:
61st House 61st Senate
62nd House 62nd Senate
American Politics

Political Science Teaching Assistant Program
What is a pocket veto?
A veto taking place when Congress adjourns within 10 days of submitting a bill to the president, who simply lets it die by neither signing nor vetoing it.Hover over to see answer
	TA Program: Intro. to Am. Gov't

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

R Studio's Online Learning Resources
Tutorials, articles, and examples exist to help you learn R and its extensions.
Teaching Resources
CRAN Task View: Statistics for the Social Sciences
Describes many R packages and resources for social science research, by John Fox.
Teaching 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
Statology
Makes learning statistics easy through explaining topics in simple, straightforward ways, multiple statistics progr...
Teaching Resources
RMUoHP Biostatistics Resource Channel
Contains lectures related to statistical techniques and theory. Also contains short screencasts demonstrating SPSS ...
Teaching Resources
Free Code Camp
Our mission: to help people learn to code for free. We accomplish this by creating thousands of videos, articles, a...
Teaching Resources
List of Political Science Data Collections
A simple, printer-friendly list of online political science data collections that you can add to your syllabus or s...
Teaching Resources
Helipad Codex
Agent-based modeling in Python.
Teaching Resources
GeoGebra
Free online math tools for graphing, geometry, 3D, and more.
Teaching Resources
Grafiti: Search Engine for Charts
Helps you search, discover & share charts from top publishers.
Teaching Resources

Watch and LearnAll Excel tutorials | teaching resources

Calculating the Difference between Two Columns
Simple example of change in test scores (1:34)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 3
Using PivotTable to Create Controlled Mean Comparison Table
Example shows repair time (DV) by technician, controlling for job type (4:01).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 7
Using SUM, COUNT and AVERAGE in PivotTables
Skills needed to make create mean comparison tables (9:51).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 4
How to do Linear Regression with Data Analysis Toolpak
Matt Macarthy demonstrates bivariate regression with home sale data(10:40).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 11
How to Create 100% Stacked Column Chart
Chart option for qualitative dependent variable (4:58).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 5
Assessing Normality of Residuals with Skewness, Kurtosis & Jarque-Bera Test
By Fam & Fami (7:48).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 13
NORM.DIST and Related Functions
Todd Grande explains how to use these functions in Excel (9:52)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 8
Logistic Regression Analysis Using Optimization with Solver
Vikas Agrawal discusses concept of logistic regression and implements with Solver (16:26).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 14
Charts & Graphs to Visualize Quantitative Data
Shows how and when to create different types of charts (34:32).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 5
How to Group, Ungroup, and Remove PivotTable Rows
Useful for making comparisons with interval-level independent variable (3:23).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 4

International RelationsAll IR

Saideman's Semi-Spew
Wide ranging thoughts on international relations, ethnic conflict, civil-military relations, academia, and politics...
Blogs | IR
International Security
RSS | Publishes articles on the full range of contemporary security issues. Its articles address traditional topics, such...
Journals | IR
GROWup - Geographical Research On War, Unified Platform
offers a visualization of settlement patterns of politically active ethnic groups around the world from 1946-2013
Data Sites | IR
Journal of Peace Research
Focuses on the causes of violence and conflict resolution, strives for a global focus on conflict and peacemaking.
Journals | IR
European J. of International Relations
Publishes peer-reviewed scholarly contributions across the full breadth of the field of International Relations.
Journals | IR
Open Event Data Alliance
A consortium committed to facilitating the development, adoption and analysis of social and political event data.
Data Sites | IR
Jonathan M. Powell
Univ. of Central Florida, see coup d'etat dataset.
Authors | IR
Erik Voeten
Georgetown, see data page
Authors | IR
Clayton Thyne
University of Kentucky
Authors | IR
Virginia Page Fortna
Columbia University
Authors | IR

Comparative PoliticsAll CP

Polity Project: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions
From The Center for Systematic Peace.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Berlin Social Center
Data-driven research on education and work, markets and choice, migration, democracy and autocracy, international p...
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Comparative Political Studies
Scholarly work on comparative politics at both the cross-national and intra-national levels.
Journals | 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
Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance Datasets
Measured related to sustainable democracy worldwide
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
NatCen Social Research
Britain's largest independent social research agency, features British Social Attitudes Data.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Environmental Performance Index
Ranks 180 countries on 24 performance indicators across ten issue categories covering environmental health and ecos...
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Party Facts
Links to datasets on political parties, an online platform about parties and their history.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Political Studies
RSS | International journal publishes research in all areas of politics and international relations
Journals | Comp. Politics
David Szakonyi
Needs description
Authors | Comp. Politics

It's Better with MusicComplete soundtrack

Awake - Tycho [Full album]
It's Better with Music
Baby Mammoth - Binks
It's Better with Music
Tobias Bassline Youtube Videos
a nice collection of continuous mixes of ambient electronic music
It's Better with Music
Lemaitre - Cut to Black
It's Better with Music
Shook - You Were Bigger Than Life
It's Better with Music
Lola Palmer DJ Set - RTS.FM
It's Better with Music

American PoliticsAll American politics

American Presidency Project
Established in 1999 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, archives contain 103,280 documents related to t...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Pennsylvania Policy Database
A free, online resource that provides access to more than 200,000 state and news media records, enables users to tr...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Current Events: Management of the Administrative State
Focused on enhancing the role political scientists can play in the management of the administrative state by becom...
Blogs | Am. Politics
Dan Wood
Texas A & M, see replication data for his books.
Authors | Am. Politics
Josh Clinton
Vanderbilt Univ., see data page.
Authors | Am. Politics
Jeff Lewis
Data on Congressional roll calls, California General Assembly
Authors | 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
Justin Kirkland
University of Virginia, see dataverse.
Authors | Am. Politics
State Politics & Policy Quarterly
RSS | The official publication of the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association
Journals | Am. Politics
Barry C. Edwards
University of Central Florida, more about me.
Authors | Am. Politics

Author Replication DataAll authors

Donald P. Green
Needs description
Authors
Margaret E. Roberts
Univ. of California, San Diego
Authors | Comp. Politics
Eric Neumayer
London School of Economics, see replication datasets.
Authors | Comp. Politics
Andreu Casas
Needs description
Authors
Vladimir Kogan
Needs description
Authors | Am. Politics
Jason H. Windett
UNC-Charlotte, see data page.
Authors | Am. Politics
Tom Clark
Emory Univ., see dataverse.
Authors | Law & Courts
Slava Mikhaylov
University of Essex, replication materials on publications page.
Authors | Comp. Politics
Alexander Coppock
Needs description
Authors
Andreas Wimmer
Columbia University
Authors | Comp. Politics

European PoliticsAll 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
British Election Study
Long term studies of Britain's electoral behavior.
Data Sites | European Politics
Austrian National Election Study
Comprehensive social science analysis of Austrian national elections.
Data Sites | European Politics
Swedish National Data Service
Facilitates access to new and existing Swedish research data.
Data Sites | European Politics
Democracy Audit
Independent organisation based at the LSE for research into the quality and effectiveness of UK democracy.
Blogs | European Politics
Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe
Panel data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks of more than 120,000 individuals aged 50...
Data Sites | European Politics
Journal of Common Market Studies
Innovative peer-reviewed research on Europe and comparative regional studies.
Journals | European Politics
Danish General Election Results
Results of Danish general elections 1953-2015 including number of votes and number of seats in parliament
Data Sites | European Politics
Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey
The attitudes, values and beliefs of the people in Northern Ireland to a wide range of social policy issues.
Data Sites | 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

African PoliticsAll African politics

Horacio Larreguy
Needs description
Authors | African Politics
African Dev. Bank Group Data Portal
Access to information on lending projects from 1967 up to now, the dataset includes basic information such as the p...
Data Sites | African Politics
Africa Information Highway
Multiple customized tools to gather indicators, analyze them, and export them into multiple formats.
Data Sites | African Politics
African J. of Political Science & Int'l Relations
RSS | Research on politics and international relations especially those pertaining to Africa.
Journals | 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
Rev. of African Political Econ. Blog
Short articles to highlight developments on the continent and comment on the dynamics of protest, shifting patterns...
Blogs | African Politics
Jeremy Horowitz
Needs description
Authors | African Politics
Abhit Bhandari
Needs description
Authors | African Politics
Joan Ricart-Huguet
Needs description
Authors | African Politics
Africa Research Institute Blog
Encourages debate, questions orthodoxy and challenges “received wisdom” in and about Africa.
Blogs | African Politics

Over 18,000 Members!


ANES Scales Often Don't Measure What You Think They MeasureAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Matthew Pietryka; Randall C. Macintosh (2022 est.)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Coalition Prospects and Policy Change: an Application to the EnvironmentAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Mark A. Kayser; Jochen Rehmert (2021)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


U.S. Patronage, State Capacity, and Civil ConflictAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Matthew Digiuseppe; Patrick E. Shea (2022 est.)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Gender, Political Knowledge and Descriptive Representation: The Impact of Long-Term SocializationAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
*Ruth Dassonneville; Ian McAllister (2018)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Strategies of Repression: Judicial and Extrajudicial Methods of Autocratic SurvivalAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Fiona Shen-Bayh (2018)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Moderation and Competence: How a Party's Ideological Position Shapes Its Valence ReputationAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Rob Johns; Ann-Kristin Kölln (2020)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Building Cooperation Among Groups in Conflict: An Experiment on Intersectarian Cooperation in LebanonAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Han Il Chang; *Leonid Peisakhin (2019)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Dyadic Conflict: Elites, Citizens, and WarAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Kristopher Ramsay; Colin Krainin (2022 est.)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals

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

Religion Data Archives
A collection of surveys, polls, and other data submitted by researchers and made available online by the ARDA.
	Data Sites \| Am. Politics

Center for the Study of African Econ.
Researching on the economic and social development in Africa since 1986, includes Free and Fair Elections Database
	Data Sites \| African Politics

K. Chad Clay
University of Georgia, see research.
	Authors \| IR

Journal of Conflict Resolution
RSS \| Links to replication data in tables of contents.
	Journal Archives \| IR

World Press Freedom Index
From Reporters Without Borders
	Data Sites \| Comp. Politics

Brookings Inst. Vital Stats on Congress
Useful data on America's first branch of government, including data on the composition of its membership, its forma...
	Data Sites \| Am. Politics

Transitional Justice Research Collaborative
data on three primary transitional justice mechanisms - human rights prosecutions, truth commissions, and amnesties...
	Data Sites \| Law & Courts

Congress Roll Call Vote Indexes
Useful, basic tables on roll call votes in House and Senate (101-present)
	Data Sites \| Am. Politics

Administration & Society
RSS \| Academic journal on public and human service organizations, their administrative processes and their effects on soc...
	Journals \| Public Administration

Strange Maps
comments on all kinds of intriguing maps - real, fictional, and what-if ones
	Blogs

Perspectives on Politics
RSS \| Seeks to provide a space for broad and synthetic discussion within the political science profession and between the...
	Journals

Journal of Supreme Court History
RSS \| Published for the Supreme Court Historical Society, the journal and the society are dedicated to the collection and...
	Journals \| Law & Courts

Center for Effective Global Action Blog
Comments on key issues related to poverty alleviation and global development.
	Blogs

Weeds Podcast, The
Vox's podcast for politics and policy discussions on important national issues, including healthcare immigration, a...
	Podcasts \| Am. Politics

Academic and the Activist, The
Explores political science through the lens of an Academic and an Activist.
	Podcasts

Public Administration
Publishes articles on all facets of public administration, public policy and public management.
	Journals \| Public Administration

Policy Sciences
RSS \| An interdisciplinary and international focus to the study of policy.
	Journals \| Public Policy

U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress
Pres. Taft's Positions: 61st House 61st Senate 62nd House 62nd Senate
	American Politics

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

R Studio's Online Learning Resources
Tutorials, articles, and examples exist to help you learn R and its extensions.
	Teaching Resources

CRAN Task View: Statistics for the Social Sciences
Describes many R packages and resources for social science research, by John Fox.
	Teaching Resources