Getting Better All the Time? What We Know from Comparative Politics Research

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This page features compilations of links to data collections, authors, and journals for political science research on comparative politics.

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Blogs, Podcasts & Journals

Comparative Political Studies: .Scholarly work on comparative politics at both the cross-national and intra-national levels.

Governance for Development: .From the World Bank.

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

Acta Politica: .One of the few truly international political science journals with a broad scope across the discipline (published by Springer).

Canadian Journal of Political Science: .Primary forum for innovative research on Canadian politics and government.

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Comparative Politics Data Sites

Political Terror Scale: .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, see data page.

Institute for Social & Econ. Research: .Work includes British Household Panel Survey.

Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization Dataset: .An ethnic fractionalization index for 165 countries across all continents. The dataset covers annually the period 1945-2013.

Global State Revenues & Expenditures: .Developed at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.

Groningen Growth & Dev. Center: .Platform for research on economic growth and development, comprehensive databases on indicators of growth and development that the Center compiles and maintains on a regular basis.

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Replication Datasets for New Articles

Macropartisanship in Multiparty Systems: A Comparative Study of Five DemocraciesHanako Ohmura (2023) POLBEH, more info.
R files: 20, datasets: 34

Party Positions from Wikipedia Classifications of Party IdeologyMichael Herrmann, +1 more author (2023) POLAN, more info.
archives: 1

The Geography of Repression and Opposition to AutocracyMaria Angelica Bautista, +4 more authors (2023) AJPS, more info.
Stata files: 3, other files: 9, PDF files: 26, datasets: 34, text files: 25, LaTeX files: 25

A Bayesian Alternative to Synthetic Control for Comparative Case StudiesXun Pang, +2 more authors (2022) POLAN, more info.
archives: 1

A Clarity Model of District Representation: District Magnitude and Pork PrioritiesMathias Tromborg, +1 more author (2022) LSQ, more info.
Stata files: 2, datasets: 3, text files: 3

Accountability by Numbers: A New Global Transitional Justice Dataset (1946-2016)Genevieve Bates, +2 more authors (2022) POP, more info.
Stata files: 1, text files: 1, datasets: 1

Affluence and Congruence: Unequal Representation Around the WorldZach Warner, +1 more author (2022) JOP, more info.
R files: 3, datasets: 2, text files: 1

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Authors with Datasets

Brancati, Dawn .Columbia University, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

Norris, Pippa .Harvard Univ., see data page.

Iversen, Torben .Harvard

Tucker, Joshua .NYU

Pierskalla, Jan .

Dancygier, Rafaela .

Siegel, Alexandra .

Robert, Thomson .Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)

Ross, Michael .UCLA

Schakel, Arjan .Maastricht University

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