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..

Measures of government integrity around the world, archived data..

Ranks 180 countries on 24 performance indicators across ten issue categories covering environmental health and ecosystem vitality.

A ranking of 178 countries across 12 indicators of the risks and vulnerabilities faced by individual nations, see data..

Measures levels of political violence and terror that a country experiences in a particular year based on a 5-level "terror scale" originally developed by Freedom House..

Research articles that make theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature, and review articles bearing on problems in international relations and comparative politics..

A Latin American politics blog from Greg Weeks of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte..

United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research addresses political and economic development issues.

Explores how savvy authoritarian governments survive and thrive, and the ways that democracies are contending with this challenge..

Primary forum for innovative research on Canadian politics and government..