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State Politics & Policy Q. Dataverse
Growing collection of replication datasets, as early as 2013.
Journal Archives | Am. Politics
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
State of First Amendment Surveys
Examines public attitudes toward freedom of speech, press, religion and the rights of assembly and petition.
Data Sites | Public Opinion Surveys
Jonathan M. Powell
Univ. of Central Florida, see coup d'etat dataset.
Authors | IR
International Studies Quarterly Dataverse
Replication datasets for articles published in ISQ. Also see ISQ legacy archive.
Journal Archives | IR
Princeton Gerrymandering Project
Research on the effects of gerrymandering in the U.S.
Data Sites | Am. Politics
NC Center for Public Policy Research
Publishes among other things, legislator and lobbyist effectiveness rankings.
Data Sites | Am. Politics
SIPRI Databases on Global Security
Features data on arms transfers, multilateral peace operations, military expenditures, arms industry, and other top...
Data Sites | IR
Earl Babbie Research Center
Supports research that addresses global concerns including human rights, social justice, peaceful solutions to soci...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
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Share InsightsAll poli sci journals | blogs | podcasts

A Few Reasonable Words
Podcast. A podcast from three professors trying desperately to soothe the frayed nerves of the American public with...
Podcasts | Am. Politics
Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy
primary focus is the study of elections and voting systems; but it has a general interest in all matters relating t...
Journals
National Political Science Review
An annual refereed publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.
Journals | Am. Politics
Australian Journal of Political Science
RSS | Official journal of the Australian Political Studies Association.
Journals
Congress & the Presidency
RSS | (Taylor & Francis) An interdisciplinary journal of political science and history that features articles on Congress...
Journals | Am. Politics
Two Weeks Notice
A Latin American politics blog from Greg Weeks of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Blogs | Comp. Politics
Law & Policy
RSS | Embraces varied research methodologies that interrogate law, governance, and public policy worldwide.
Journals
Journal of Democracy
Critical discussions of the problems of and prospects for democracy around the world.
Journals
Indiana Political Science Journal
From the Indiana Political Science Association
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Legislative Studies Quarterly
RSS | Devoted to research on representative assemblies.
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Original Projects & Publications

U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress
Pres. Coolidge's Positions:
68th House     68th Senate
69th House     69th Senate
70th House     70th Senate
American Politics

Political Science Teaching Assistant Program
What is the Pendleton Act (Civil Service Reform Act)?
An act that established the principle of employment on the basis of merit and created the Civil Service Commission to administer the personnel service.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

Grafiti: Search Engine for Charts
Helps you search, discover & share charts from top publishers.
Teaching Resources
SPSS Tutorials
Great set of informative tutorials covering range of tasks
Teaching Resources
Advanced Quantitative Research Methodology Class
Gary King's Harvard University course web site includes lecture notes and other resources.
Teaching Resources
Advanced Regression Analysis
Materials, including slides and code samples, from Dave Armstrong's ICPSR course.
Teaching Resources
Applied Survey Methods
Web site for book by Jelke Bethlehem, University of Amsterdam.
Teaching Resources
RMUoHP Biostatistics Resource Channel
Contains lectures related to statistical techniques and theory. Also contains short screencasts demonstrating SPSS ...
Teaching Resources
CoMSES Net
An international network with the goal of advancing agent based modeling in the social and ecological sciences, see...
Teaching Resources
Choosing the Right Statistical Test
From John McDonald
Teaching Resources
Flowing Data
Nathan Yau explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and expl...
Teaching Resources
Visions in Methodology
Designed to support women who study political methodology.
Teaching Resources

Watch and LearnAll Excel tutorials | teaching resources

Conducting a Multiple Regression using Data Analysis Tools
Todd Grande demonstrates with example (10:14).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 12
Filter Options Basics
With time saving tips from Leila Gharani (10:45)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 3
Excel Pivot Tables Explained
Leila Gharani uses PivotTables to summarize sales data by other variables, like sales by product (13:21).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 4
Charts & Graphs to Visualize Quantitative Data
Shows how and when to create different types of charts (34:32).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 5
Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R
Web site for book by Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani. Includes full text, sample ...
R Demos & Resources
How to Show % of Total in PivotTable
Helps create percentages column in frequency distribution table (4:30).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 2
How to Make a Map Chart
Demonstrates using Florida zip codes (4:33).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 2
Logistic Regression Analysis Using Optimization with Solver
Vikas Agrawal discusses concept of logistic regression and implements with Solver (16:26).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 14
One-Way ANOVA with the Data Analysis ToolPak
Nice illustration of underlying data, from Jeffrey Knutsen (4:19)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 10
Logistic Regression Using Excel
Analyzes who survived Titanic disaster using Real Statistics Add-In Logistic Regression Tool (7:54).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 14

International RelationsAll 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
War on the Rocks
A platform for analysis, commentary, debate and multimedia content on foreign policy and national security issues t...
Blogs | IR
xSub / cross-sub.org
A repository of micro-level, subnational event data on armed conflict and contention around the world.
Data Sites | IR
Andrew Owsiak
Univ. of Georgia, see datasets on research page.
Authors | IR
Peace Accords Matrix Implementation
Tracks the implementation of 51 different types of provisions.
Data Sites | IR
Erik Voeten
Georgetown, see data page
Authors | IR
Angela D. Nichols
Florida Atlantic Univ., datasets on research page.
Authors | IR
NewGene
A data management tool for creating data sets for use in the quantitative analysis of political science, primarily ...
Data Sites | IR
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project
Data and analysis source on political violence and protest in the developing world. See data page.
Data Sites | 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

Comparative PoliticsAll CP

Two Weeks Notice
A Latin American politics blog from Greg Weeks of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Blogs | Comp. Politics
World Database of Happiness
Archive of research findings on subjective enjoyment of life
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
legislatoR
Political, sociodemographic, and Wikipedia-related data on elected politicians across the globe for R environment.
Data Sites | 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
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
Journal of Human Rights Dataverse
Replication data for some articles published in last five years.
Journal Archives | Comp. Politics
Global State Revenues & Expenditures
Developed at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance Datasets
Measured related to sustainable democracy worldwide
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Inter-Parliamentary Union
See their open data platform
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Israel National Election Studies
Aims to investigate voting patterns, public opinion, and political participation in Israel.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics

American PoliticsAll American politics

Andrew Reeves
Washington Univ. in St. Louis, see dataverse.
Authors | Am. Politics
E. Scott Adler
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, see datasets.
Authors | Am. Politics
Justin Kirkland
University of Virginia, see dataverse.
Authors | Am. Politics
Biographical Directory of Members of Congress
Needs description
Data Sites | Am. Politics
David Mayhew
Yale University, see books with datasets.
Authors | Am. Politics
Peter Enns
Cornell University, see research.
Authors | Am. Politics
State Policy Index
State and Local Public Policies in the United States is an ongoing research project and data compendium. On this we...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Forum
Professionally informed commentary on issues affecting contemporary American politics.
Journals | Am. Politics
Journal of Political Science
Published annually by the South Carolina Political Science Association
Journals | Am. Politics
NC Center for Public Policy Research
Publishes among other things, legislator and lobbyist effectiveness rankings.
Data Sites | Am. Politics

European PoliticsAll European politics

European Central Bank Statistical Data Warehouse
Economic indicators for Euro area.
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
JEPP Online
Official blog of the Journal of European Public Policy.
Blogs | European Politics
European Journal of Political Research
Original and substantial contributions to the study of comparative European politics.
Journals | European Politics
West European Politics
RSS | One of the most authoritative journals covering politics, government and public policy in Western Europe.
Journals | European Politics
Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti Foundation
Applied and policy-oriented research on labor markets, immigration and welfare systems in Europe
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

British Election Study
Long term studies of Britain's electoral behavior.
Data Sites | European Politics
Party Systems and Governments Observatory
Data on government formation and party system institutionalization in all 48 European democracies, from the Second ...
Data Sites | European Politics
NatCen Social Research
Britain’s largest independent social research agency.
Data Sites | European Politics

African PoliticsAll 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
Index of African Governance
From the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.
Data Sites | African Politics
Africa Research Institute Blog
Encourages debate, questions orthodoxy and challenges “received wisdom” in and about Africa.
Blogs | African Politics
Africa Information Highway
Multiple customized tools to gather indicators, analyze them, and export them into multiple formats.
Data Sites | 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
Nat'l Institute of Statistics of Rwanda
Collects and archives key national data.
Data Sites | African Politics
Horacio Larreguy
Needs description
Authors | 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
South African Data Archive
Serves as a broker between a range of data providers and the research community.
Data Sites | 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


More Important, but for What Exactly? The Insignficant Role of Subjective Issue Importance in Vote DecisionsAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Joshua Robison; Thomas Leeper (2020)
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Helping Friends or Influencing Foes: Electoral and Policy Effects of Campaign Finance ContributionsAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Keith Schnakenberg; Ian R. Turner (2021)
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Missing the Target? Using Surveys to Validate Social Media Ad TargetingAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
*Michael Sances (2021)
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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)
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How Much is One American Worth? How Competition Affects Trade PreferencesAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Diana C Mutz; Hye-Yon Lee (2020)
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Offsetting Uncertainty: Reassurance with Two-Sided Incomplete InformationAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Kyle Haynes; Brandon Yoder (2020)
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Less Bang for Your Buck? Economic Insecurity and the Constraint of Social Capital on Social Welfare PolicyAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Mallory Compton (2018)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Disloyal Brokers and Weak PartiesAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Lucas M. Novaes (2018)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Policy Attitudes in Institutional Context: Rules, Uncertainty, and the Mass Politics of Public InvestmentAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Alan M. Jacobs; J. Scott Matthews (2017)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


More Effective Than We Thought: Accounting for Legislative Hitchhikers Reveals a More Inclusive and Productive Lawmaking ProcessAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
*Andreu Casas; Matthew J. Denny; John Wilkerson (2020)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals

State Politics & Policy Q. Dataverse
Growing collection of replication datasets, as early as 2013.
	Journal Archives \| Am. Politics

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

State of First Amendment Surveys
Examines public attitudes toward freedom of speech, press, religion and the rights of assembly and petition.
	Data Sites \| Public Opinion Surveys

Jonathan M. Powell
Univ. of Central Florida, see coup d'etat dataset.
	Authors \| IR

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

Princeton Gerrymandering Project
Research on the effects of gerrymandering in the U.S.
	Data Sites \| Am. Politics

NC Center for Public Policy Research
Publishes among other things, legislator and lobbyist effectiveness rankings.
	Data Sites \| Am. Politics

SIPRI Databases on Global Security
Features data on arms transfers, multilateral peace operations, military expenditures, arms industry, and other top...
	Data Sites \| IR

Earl Babbie Research Center
Supports research that addresses global concerns including human rights, social justice, peaceful solutions to soci...
	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.

A Few Reasonable Words
Podcast. A podcast from three professors trying desperately to soothe the frayed nerves of the American public with...
	Podcasts \| Am. Politics

Representation: Journal of Representative Democracy
primary focus is the study of elections and voting systems; but it has a general interest in all matters relating t...
	Journals

National Political Science Review
An annual refereed publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.
	Journals \| Am. Politics

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

Congress & the Presidency
RSS \| (Taylor & Francis) An interdisciplinary journal of political science and history that features articles on Congress...
	Journals \| Am. Politics

Two Weeks Notice
A Latin American politics blog from Greg Weeks of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
	Blogs \| Comp. Politics

Law & Policy
RSS \| Embraces varied research methodologies that interrogate law, governance, and public policy worldwide.
	Journals

Journal of Democracy
Critical discussions of the problems of and prospects for democracy around the world.
	Journals

Indiana Political Science Journal
From the Indiana Political Science Association
	Journals

Legislative Studies Quarterly
RSS \| Devoted to research on representative assemblies.
	Journals

U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress
Pres. Coolidge's Positions: 68th House 68th Senate 69th House 69th Senate 70th House 70th 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