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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. .
Political Science Data Podcast: Research on the Politics of India i
(21:09) This episode shares data-driven insights about the Politics of India. It covers a variety of studies, addressing issues like religion, property rights, public works projects, monetary policy, affirmative action and the caste system, and law enforcement. .
Two Types of Experiments i
Teaching video by Philip Pollock & Barry Edwards for Essentials of Political Analysis, 7th Ed. (11:19).
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Longstanding survey about what Americans think and feel about various political issues.
General Social Survey
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Features annual World Press Freedom Index.
Reporters Without Borders
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Goal of project is to maximize the comparability of income inequality data while maintaining the widest possible coverage across countries and over time..
Standardized World Income Inequality Database, The
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Supports research that addresses global concerns including human rights, social justice, peaceful solutions to social conflicts and environmental sustainability..
Earl Babbie Research Center
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database with information on relative levels of income, output, input and productivity, covering 182 countries between 1950 and 2014.
Penn World Table
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Academic journal on public and human service organizations, their administrative processes and their effects on society..
Administration & Society
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Interdisciplinary journal concerned with the application of historical perspectives to public policy studies..
Journal of Policy History
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The highest quality manuscripts in positive political science and contemporary political economy..
Quarterly Journal of Political Science
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Applies social science theories and concepts to significant political, economic and social issues and to the ways in which public policies are made..
Journal of Public Policy
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peer reviewed journal that publishes essays and reviews addressing the political economy of organized crime whether at the transnational, national, regional or local levels anywhere in the world.
Crime, Law and Social Change
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