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Racial Segregation in American Prisons: How Widespread?
Racial segregation seems to be standard practice in prison. Prisoners are assigned to cells or cell block based on their race. Separating prisoners by race is deemed necessary for safety, […]

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Blogs, Podcasts & Journals

Made in America: .Notes on American life and history by Claude S. Fischer.

Politics and the Life Sciences: .Official journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, an American Political Science Association (APSA) Related Group.

New Political Economy: .Aims to create a forum for work which combines the breadth of vision which characterised the classical political economy of the nineteenth century with the analytical advances of twentieth century.

Science of Politics, The: .Features up-and-coming researchers delivering fresh insights on the big trends driving American politics and policy today. In 30 minutes, you'll get beyond punditry to data-driven understanding.

Public Policy and Administration: .original peer-reviewed material within the broad field of public policy and administration

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Data Sites

Mexico's Nat'l Inst. of Stats & Geography: .Government data in a wide range of categories.

Data.gov: .Guide to data from more than 100 agencies that provide data and trend information on such topics as economic and population trends, crime, education, health care, energy use and more

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 project title and ID, country, sector, task manager but also, financial information, results and linksD, country, sector, task manager to publicly disclosed documents.

Electoral System Family Map App: .Interactive Shiny app shows world map and frequencies of electoral system by decade.

TERRIER: .Stands for temporally extended, regular, reproducible international event records, is a new machine coded event dataset ranging from 1979 to 2016.

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Peer-Reviewed Articles with Replication Data Online

Primary Model Predicts Trump Re-electionHelmut Norpoth (2021)