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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Party Politics: .(Sage Journals) Forum for the analysis of political parties.

Power 3.0: .Explores how savvy authoritarian governments survive and thrive, and the ways that democracies are contending with this challenge.

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

Governance for Development: .From the World Bank.

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

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Comparative Politics Data Sites

Caucasus Research Resource Centers: .A network of research, resource and training centers established in 2003 in the capital cities of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, see datasets.

Human Rights Measurement Initiative: .Tracks the human rights performance of countries.

Political Constraint Index (POLCON): .Dataset by Witold Henisz at Wharton

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 of Citizenship Studies (InCite): .Research and other initiatives related to the theme of citizenship in its legal, political, and social dimensions

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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

Laver, Michael .NYU Dept of Politics

Kuncic, Aljaz .University of Ljubljana

La Porta, Rafael .Tuck Business School (Dartmouth), see datasets on research page.

Dancygier, Rafaela .

Reuter, Ora John .

Tucker, Joshua .NYU

Adolph, Christopher .Univ. of Washington, see replication data.

Iversen, Torben .Harvard

Benoit, Kenneth .LSE, see datasets on publications page.

Wacziarg, Romain .UCLA School of Management

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