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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

Policy and Society: .Publishes original and innovative research addressing policy theory and practice. Each issue of Policy and Society is overseen by a guest editor(s).

Int'l J. of Public Opinion Research: .A source of informed analysis and comment for both professionals and academics.

Democracy Audit: .Independent organisation based at the LSE for research into the quality and effectiveness of UK democracy.

Social Science Research: .Social Science Research publishes papers devoted to quantitative social science research and methodology.

Marginal Revolution: .By Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok

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Data Sites

Chapel Hill Expert Survey: .Estimate party positioning on European integration, ideology and policy issues for national parties in a variety of European countries.

Harvard Election Data Archive: .This archive contains data on election results, voting behavior, and electoral politics, with particular focus on the United States.

KOF Swiss Economic Institute: .Extensive economic research, including Globalization Index.

Archigos: .A data base on leaders 1875 - 2004.

Pew Global Attitudes Surveys: .Organized by survey, each dataset is identified by the name of the survey.

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Peer-Reviewed Articles with Replication Data Online

Primary Model Predicts Trump Re-electionHelmut Norpoth (2021)

Public Approval, Policy Issues, and Partisanship in the American Presidency: Examining the 2020 Trump Impeachment and AcquittalCraig Burnett; Meena Bose (2022)

When Celebrity and Political Journalism Collide: Reporting Standards, Entertainment, and the Conundrum of Covering Donald Trump's 2016 CampaignAmber Boydstun; Regina G. Lawrence (2020)

The Trump Effect: An Experimental Investigation of the Emboldening Effect of Racially Inflammatory Elite CommunicationBenjamin Newman; Jennifer L. Merolla; Sono Shah; Danielle Casarez Lemi; Loren Collingwood; S. Karthick Ramakrishnan (2021)

Searching for Bright Lines in the Trump PresidencyJohn Carey; Gretchen Helmke; *Brendan Nyhan; Mitchell Sanders; Susan Stokes (2019)

Does the @realDonaldTrump Really Matter to Financial Markets?Allyson L. Benton; Andrew Q. Philips (2020)

Does Party Trump Ideology? Disentangling Party and Ideology in AmericaMichael Barber; Jeremy Pope (2019)

The Differential Effects of Economic Conditions and Racial Attitudes in the Election of Donald TrumpJonathan Green; Sean McElwee (2019)

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Authors with Datasets

Reif, Megan .University of Gothenburg

Lowande, Kenneth .Univ. of Michigan, see datasets on research page.

Sechser, Todd .University of Virginia, find replication data on research page

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

Hainmueller, Jens .

Stimson, James .Univ. of North Carolina, see data page.

Miller, Michael .George Washington University

King, Gary .Harvard University

Hall, Matthew .University of Notre Dame, see replication data and large datasets.

Williams, Laron .University of Missouri, see dataverse.

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