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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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Elections, Authoritarianism, and Partisan Polarization in the US i
2023 Miller-Converse Lecture by Stanley Feldman (1:27:38).
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Dataset by Witold Henisz at Wharton.
Political Constraint Index (POLCON)
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From the Office of the Clerk, official vote counts in congressional elections since 1920.
U.S. House Election Results Archive
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Stands for temporally extended, regular, reproducible international event records, is a new machine coded event dataset ranging from 1979 to 2016..
TERRIER
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From the Hertie School of Governance's Governance Report..
Governance Indicators
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Monitors broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages. Identifies the people, locations, organizations, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images and events driving our global society..
GDELT Project
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Focuses on short articles that are easily accessible but that are also methodologically rigorous..
Research & Politics
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General interest journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association..
Polity
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Publishes leading scholarship that engages with significant theoretical, empirical, and normative subjects in international studies..
International Studies Quarterly
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Embraces varied research methodologies that interrogate law, governance, and public policy worldwide..
Law & Policy
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Research articles that make theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature, and review articles bearing on problems in international relations and comparative politics..
World Politics
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Pres. James Garfield'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.