Political Science Data, Methods, and Replication Resources

THIS WEEK'S THEME: Research Design, Research Ethics, and Evidence of Causation

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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. .

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Multiple Regression in R i

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Econometrics: Control Variables i

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LEARN HOW: Watch Lecture Videos for Essentials of Political Analysis, Video Tutorials for R, Stata, SPSS, and Excel

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Studying Donald Trump

Modern Mexican Politics

Online Survey Quality

Politics of Gun Violence

Special Edition: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

The Russia-Ukraine War

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Datasets on the lobbying activities of major companies..

LobbyView

Extremely helpful resource for research on federal judges..

Federal Judicial Center Biographical Database

A continual large-scale survey research project that integrates several election-oriented face-to-face surveys in Taiwan..

Taiwan Election & Democratization Study

Multiple customized tools to gather indicators, analyze them, and export them into multiple formats..

Africa Information Highway

Annual public opinion survey that involves some 20,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries. Try online data analysis..

Latinobarometro

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Teach Political Analysis

Use our Interactive Syllabus Builder to create a course outline with ease! Integrate the classic text, Essentials of Political Analysis, with Companions for SPSS, Stata, Excel & R.

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ORIGINAL PROJECT: Studying Presidents

Pres. Grover Cleveland's Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress

This data is part of a larger project to identify the policy preferences of all U.S. Presidents. See index.