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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. .
T-Test in Excel i
Evan Matthews explains how to conduct a t-test in Excel, and how to interpret the results (7:06).
Center for Systemic Peace's YouTube Channel i
Great set of concise videos to supplement courses on international relations..
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Offers a measure of the political liberalism-conservatism of states, congressional districts, cities, state senate and assembly districts, and partisans within these areas.
American Ideology Project
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A collection of sophisticated school finance measures for assessing the adequacy and fairness of each state's revenue, spending, and resource allocation, and for comparing these outcomes between states..
School Finance Indicators Database
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A comprehensive analysis and survey that evaluates whether governments give the public access to budget information and opportunities to participate in the budget process at the national level..
Open Budget Survey
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Established in 1999 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, archives contain 103,280 documents related to the study of the Presidency..
American Presidency Project
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One of the largest archives for research data of its kind, includes the European Election Database..
Norwegian Centre for Research Data
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Non-partisan research center blog focuses on public opinion research and American National Election Studies..
Univ. Michigan Center for Political Studies Blog
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dedicated to political and social reform and has long acted as a conduit between policy-makers, commentators and academics.
Political Quarterly
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Explores how savvy authoritarian governments survive and thrive, and the ways that democracies are contending with this challenge..
Power 3.0
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comments on all kinds of intriguing maps - real, fictional, and what-if ones.
Strange Maps
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Professors Elizabeth Matsui and Roger Peng talk about life in the academic trenches, telling it like it is..
Effort Report, The
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