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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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Pros and Cons of Public Opinion Polls i

From TED-Ed (4:24).

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Electoral Integrity: The U.S. in Comparative Perspective i

Research presentation for Electoral Integrity Project (12:59).

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Data on federal court litigation from 1997 to 2006, inclusive, by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission..

EEOC Litigation Project

This data set includes traditional aggregate voting scores as well as Cooper-Young structuring scores from the 40th through the 111th Congresses (1867-2009).

Congressional Voting Data

Public opinion surveys from U.S. and around the world..

Roper Center

Research on economic mobility, see data and replication code .

Equality of Opportunity Project

A data infrastructure for political science and contains information for all EU and most OECD democracies..

ParlGov Project

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From the London School of Economics..

British Politics and Policy

From the Law and Courts Organized Section of the American Political Science Association..

Journal of Law and Courts

serves as the leading platform for the study of regulation and governance.

Regulation & Governance

A source of informed analysis and comment for both professionals and academics..

Int'l J. of Public Opinion Research

William Kelleher criticizing and replacing the dominant positivist paradigm in Political Science..

Political Science Interpretivist, The

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Pres. Franklin Pierce'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.