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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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One-Way ANOVA (Single Factor) with Data Analysis Tools i

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Regression Predictions and Residuals i

From Nick Huntington-Klein (6:20).

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online archive of gun violence incidents, provides near-real time data about the results of gun violence..

Gun Violence Archive

Risk of violent conflict in the next 1-4 years, exclusively based on quantitative indicators from open sources, from European Commission..

Global Conflict Risk Index

A repository of detailed election results at the constituency level for lower house legislative elections from around the world.

Constituency-Level Elections Archive

An open, free-to-use, searchable research data repository, which enables researchers to make their research data publicly available..

Mendeley Data

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Polity Project: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions

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Contributions are drawn from all fields of political science, widely recognized as one of the premier journals..

British Journal of Political Science

From Andrew Gelman and co-authors..

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

Critical discussions of the problems of and prospects for democracy around the world..

Journal of Democracy

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

Journal of Law and Courts

Government Affairs Institute's Senior Fellows discuss current congressional politics..

Congress, Two Beers In

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Pres. William McKinley's Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress

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