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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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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
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Collection of political and institutional country-level data. It consists of annual data for 36 democratic countries for the period of 1960 to 2015 or since their transition to democracy..
Comparative Political Data Set
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Includes major UK government-sponsored surveys, cross-national surveys, longitudinal studies, UK census data, international aggregate, business data, and qualitative data..
UK Data Service
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The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources..
World Bank's Data Catalog
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Aims to measure the ideology of individual state legislators and state legislatures as a whole over the past several decades, state and individual-level data available..
American Legislatures Project
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Explores how savvy authoritarian governments survive and thrive, and the ways that democracies are contending with this challenge..
Power 3.0
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Embraces varied research methodologies that interrogate law, governance, and public policy worldwide..
Law & Policy
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From University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Provides a fresh perspective on the biggest political stories by focusing on research and data, not pundits and politicians..
Not Another Politics Podcast
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An outlet for theoretically and empirically grounded research on policy process and policy analysis..
Policy Studies Journal
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Devoted to research on representative assemblies..
Legislative Studies Quarterly
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Pres. Chester Arthur'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.