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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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Creating and Interpretting a Scatterplot Matrix i

From Katie Ann Jager (4:27).

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The Normal Distribution and the 68-95-99.7 Rule i

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Developed at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies..

Global State Revenues & Expenditures

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

Mendeley Data

Useful, basic tables on roll call votes in House and Senate (101-present).

Congress Roll Call Vote Indexes

The site helps ordinary citizens find and track bills in the U.S. Congress and understand their representatives' legislative record..

GovTrack.us

A data archive and research center dedicated to cross-national analysis, home to two databases: Luxembourg Income Study and Luxembourg Wealth Study..

LIS Cross-National Data Center

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An interdisciplinary journal created to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects of human mobility..

International Migration Review

(Sage Publishing) Research on British politics.

British J. of Politics & Int'l Relations

Dedicated to publishing quality articles on issues related to the domestic and international affairs of Asia..

Asian Politics & Policy

A popular science podcast bringing you first-hand insights into how social media is changing the political game..

Social Media & Politics

Features research at the intersection of politics and communication..

Political Communication

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Pres. Herbert Hoover'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.