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Articles with Replication DataAlso see Journal Data Archives | Author Replication Data

Presidential Approval and the Inherited EconomyAbstract | Data | Find Text
*Michael Sances (Forthcoming)
Journal Archives | More Journals
What Motivates Reasoning? A Theory of Goal-Dependent Political EvaluationAbstract | Data | Find Text
Eric Groenendyk; Yanna Krupnikov (2021)
Journal Archives | More Journals


More Important, but for What Exactly? The Insignficant Role of Subjective Issue Importance in Vote DecisionsAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Joshua Robison; Thomas Leeper (2020)
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Nonelectoral Motivations to Represent Marginalized Groups in a Democracy: Evidence from an Unelected legislatureAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
John McAndrews; Jonah I. Goldberg; Peter John Loewen; Daniel Rubenson; Benjamin Allen Stevens (Forthcoming)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals

Sectarian Framing in the Syrian Civil WarAbstract | Data | Find Text
Daniel Corstange; Erin York (2018)
Journal Archives | More Journals
When Do Campaign Effects Persist for Years? Evidence from a Natural ExperimentAbstract | Data | Find Text
Kai Jäger (2020)
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Punctuated Equilibrium or Incrementalism in Policymaking: What We Can and Cannot Learn from the Distribution of Policy ChangesAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
*Bruce Desmarais (2019)
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Disgust, Anxiety, and Political Learning in the Face of ThreatAbstract | Data | Find Text
*Scott Clifford; Jennifer Jerit (2018)
Journal Archives | More Journals
Can Transitional Justice Improve the Quality of Representation in New Democracies?Abstract | Data | Find Text
Milena Ang; Monika Nalepa (2019)
Journal Archives | More Journals
Gender, Political Knowledge and Descriptive Representation: The Impact of Long-Term SocializationAbstract | Data | Find Text
*Ruth Dassonneville; Ian McAllister (2018)
Journal Archives | More Journals

Find DatasetsAll topical collections

Am. J. of Political Science Dataverse
Replication datasets for articles as old as 2012, datasets for many forthcoming articles.
Journal Archives
Portal of Public Use Datasets on Sub-Saharan Africa
From the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Data Sites | African Politics
IPUMS
Census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Kristin Kanthak
University of Pittsburgh, see replication data page.
Authors | Am. Politics
J. of Information Tech. and Politics Dataverse
Replication for some articles in years 2008-2012. JITP home page.
Journal Archives
Congressional Bills Project
information about more than 400,000 bills introduced in the U.S. Congress, currently 1947-2008, along with extensiv...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Voteview Legacy Website
Keith Poole's web site for data on U.S. Congress, well-organized, thoroughly documented, updated frequently.
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Canadian Election Study
Thorough account of Canadian elections.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization Dataset
An ethnic fractionalization index for 165 countries across all continents. The dataset covers annually the period 1...
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
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Univ. of Toronto J. of Political Science
A yearly, open access, peer-reviewed issue containing original research conducted by academics and students in all ...
Journals
Crime, Law and Social Change
RSS | peer reviewed journal that publishes essays and reviews addressing the political economy of organized crime whether...
Journals | Law & Courts
Social Science History
seeks to advance the study of the past by publishing research that appeals to the journal's interdisciplinary r...
Journals
Political Behavior
RSS | Publishes original research in the general fields of political behavior, institutions, processes, and policies.
Journals | Pol. Behavior
Review of African Political Economy
Radical analyses of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of...
Journals | African Politics
International Theory
A peer reviewed journal which promotes theoretical scholarship about the positive, legal, and normative aspects of ...
Journals
Urban Affairs Review
Published by the Urban Politics Section of the APSA.
Journals
National Security Law Podcast
A weekly review of the latest legal controversies associated with the U.S. government's national security activitie...
Blogs
Fully Automated
A show for people interested in power, resistance, and critical thinking hosted by Nicholas Kiersey, Professor of P...
Podcasts
J. of Law, Econ. & Organization
RSS | Promotes understanding by examining complex phenomena from a combined law, economics, and organization perspective
Journals

Original Projects & Publications

U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress
Pres. J. Adams's Positions:
5th House 5th Senate
6th House 6th Senate
American Politics

Political Science Teaching Assistant Program
What is an open rule?
A provision that allows any amendment to be proposed once a bill comes to the chamber floor. Hover over to see answer
	TA Program: Intro. to Am. Gov't

The Essentials of Political Analysis, 6th Ed. (CQ/Sage, 2020)
Request exam copy
Student & instructor resources
Lecture videos
My Publications
Live R Code Demos
Sample uses of the R Statistics Program for political science research. From Barry Edwards, Political Science Data.
R Demos & Resources
Sample Syllabi for Research Methods Courses
Don't reinvent the wheel. Find courses that use your preferred software (SPSS, Stata, or R).
Teaching Resources
Calculate Ideal Points of Federal Judges
This program implements the Giles, Hettinger, Peppers (GHP) method of estimating ideal points of federal judges in ...
Data Sites | Law & Courts
Create Cross-Tabulations with US Circuit Court Data
This resource allows you to analyze some of the variables coded in Phase Three of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal...
Data Sites | Law & Courts

Teach Data AnalysisAll teaching resources

Data Driven Documents
D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML,...
Teaching Resources
Visions in Methodology
Designed to support women who study political methodology.
Teaching Resources
Getting Started in Data Analysis using Stata and R
From Data and Statistical Services at Princeton University.
Teaching Resources
Intro. to Empirical Legal Research
Web site for book by Andrew Martin and Lee Epstein, includes datasets for exercises.
Teaching Resources
CoMSES Net
An international network with the goal of advancing agent based modeling in the social and ecological sciences, see...
Teaching Resources
Interactive Statistical Pages
A compilation of links to web pages that perform statistical calculations.
Teaching Resources
How2Stats Youtube Channel
Excellent collection of SPSS tutorial videos.
Teaching Resources
GeoGebra
Free online math tools for graphing, geometry, 3D, and more.
Teaching Resources
Statistics and Probability Course
From Khan Academy, adapts to your level and tracks your progress
Teaching Resources
Flourish: Data Visualization and Storytelling
Free plans available for educational use of public data.
Teaching Resources

Watch and LearnAll Excel tutorials | teaching resources

Creating a Boxplot
Tutorial from Todd Grande (12:03).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 5
Filter Options Basics
With time saving tips from Leila Gharani (10:45)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 3
How to Use Autosum, Average, Max, Min, Count & Autofill Functions
From Organic Chemistry Tutor (6:46)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 3
Advanced Filter Options Using Criteria Ranges
Leila Gharani shows how to create interactive filters on worksheets (7:23)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 3
How to Generate Normally Distributed Random Numbers
Using Data Analysis Toolpak (5:53)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 8
Excel Printing Problems, Solved
Leila Gharani shares tips and suggestions for efficient printing (10:50).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 1
Cleaning Messy Data for Analysis
Andrew Lockwood shares a lot of great tips and suggestions (21:10).
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 15
Exploratory Data Analysis, Online Instructional Videos
By Roger Peng.
Teaching Resources
How to Create Simple Random Sample and Systematic Sample
From Farhad Zulfiqar (5:18)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 6
How to Use NORM.DIST and NORM.INV Functions in Excel
From Learn Something (6:12)
Excel Tutorials | Chapter 8

International RelationsAll IR

Duck of Minerva
Addresses world politics from an academic perspective.
Blogs | IR
Jason Lyall
Dartmouth College, see publications and data page.
Authors | IR
Saideman's Semi-Spew
Wide ranging thoughts on international relations, ethnic conflict, civil-military relations, academia, and politics...
Blogs | IR
Andrew Owsiak
Univ. of Georgia, see datasets on research page.
Authors | IR
Real Time Event Data / Phoenix
Event data on political and social events around the globe, along with the software and methodology needed to analy...
Data Sites | IR
Political Violence at a Glance
Experts answer questions about violence happening around the world and offer simple, straight-forward analysis befo...
Blogs | IR
Design of Trade Agreements (DESTA) Database
Systematic data on the design of preferential trade agreements that have been signed since 1945.
Data Sites | IR
World Integrated Trade Solution
Allows users to access and retrieve information on trade and tariffs, from the World Bank.
Data Sites | IR
Global Terrorism Database
Open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2017, now include...
Data Sites | IR
European J. of International Relations
Publishes peer-reviewed scholarly contributions across the full breadth of the field of International Relations.
Journals | IR

Comparative PoliticsAll CP

Two Weeks Notice
A Latin American politics blog from Greg Weeks of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Blogs | Comp. Politics
Guide to Data on Developing Countries
Compiled by Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Human Rights Measurement Initiative
Tracks the human rights performance of countries.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Fragile States Index
A ranking of 178 countries across 12 indicators of the risks and vulnerabilities faced by individual nations, see d...
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
World Bank Open Data
Free and open access to global development data
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Institutions and Elections Project
contains information on de jure institutional provisions, electoral procedures, and electoral events for 170 countr...
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Authoritarian Regimes Dataset
A comprehensive dataset on authoritarian regimes in the world between 1972-2014.
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
WIDER Angle
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research addresses political and economic devel...
Blogs | Comp. Politics
Int'l Political Economy Data Resource
Seeks to provide a public good to the field by standardizing and merging together variables from 89 IPE data source...
Data Sites | Comp. Politics
Timothy Hicks
Needs description
Authors | Comp. Politics

It's Better with MusicComplete soundtrack

American PoliticsAll American politics

Data.gov
Guide to data from more than 100 agencies that provide data and trend information on such topics as economic and po...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
School Finance Indicators Database
A collection of sophisticated school finance measures for assessing the adequacy and fairness of each state’s rev...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Jason H. Windett
UNC-Charlotte, see data page.
Authors | Am. Politics
Presidential Studies Quarterly
RSS | Peer-reviewed political science journal devoted to study of presidents and presidency.
Journals | Am. Politics
E. Scott Adler
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, see datasets.
Authors | Am. Politics
State Networks Dataset
A compilation of many state-to-state relational variables, including measures of shared borders, travel and trade b...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
State Policy Index
State and Local Public Policies in the United States is an ongoing research project and data compendium. On this we...
Data Sites | Am. Politics
Janet Box-Steffensmeier
Ohio State University, see dataverse.
Authors | Am. Politics
Stephen Pettigrew
Univ. of Pennsylvania, see data.
Authors | Am. Politics
US Presidential Elections Data
With some cool visualizations of the data.
Data Sites | Am. Politics

Author Replication DataAll authors

Kuniaki Nemoto
Musashi University, see data page for Korean and New Zealand election data.
Authors | Voting & Elections
Christopher Gelpi
Ohio State University, see datasets.
Authors | IR
Matthew Fuhrmann
Needs description
Authors
Thomas J. Leeper
Needs description
Authors
Sven-Oliver Proksch
Needs description
Authors | European Politics
David Mayhew
Yale University, see books with datasets.
Authors | Am. Politics
Michael Miller
George Washington University
Authors | Comp. Politics
Matthew Levendusky
University of Pennsylvania, see dataverse.
Authors | Am. Politics
Janet Box-Steffensmeier
Ohio State University, see dataverse.
Authors | Am. Politics
Joel W. Johnson
Colorado State University - Pueblo
Authors | Comp. Politics

European PoliticsAll European politics

Dutch Parliamentary Voting Dataset
Voting behaviour in the Dutch parliament.
Data Sites | European Politics
Journal of European Integration
RSS | Scholarly work on all aspects of the European integration process.
Journals | European Politics
Danish National Election Study
Data from all 16 elections in the 1971-2011 period.
Data Sites | European Politics
IPPR Progressive Review
A pluralistic space to debate where next for progressives, examine the opportunities and challenges confronting us ...
Public Policy Journals | European Politics
Journal of Common Market Studies
Innovative peer-reviewed research on Europe and comparative regional studies.
Journals | European Politics
Party Systems and Governments Observatory
Data on government formation and party system institutionalization in all 48 European democracies, from the Second ...
Data Sites | European Politics
German Socio-Economic Panel
A longitudinal survey of households in Germany from 1984 to 2016. Variables include household composition, employme...
Data Sites | European Politics
NatCen Social Research
Britain’s largest independent social research agency.
Data Sites | European Politics
Markus Wagner
Needs description
Authors | European Politics
European Representative Democracy Data Archive
Datasets on political institutions, political parties, cabinets and governments in Europe.
Data Sites | European Politics

African PoliticsAll African politics

Ufahamu Africa
Life and politics on the continent.
Podcasts | African Politics
African Affairs
Published on behalf of the Royal African Society, the top ranked journal in African Studies, an inter-disciplinary ...
Journals | African Politics
South African Data Archive
Serves as a broker between a range of data providers and the research community.
Data Sites | African Politics
Africa Information Highway
Multiple customized tools to gather indicators, analyze them, and export them into multiple formats.
Data Sites | African Politics
Center for the Study of African Econ.
Researching on the economic and social development in Africa since 1986, includes Free and Fair Elections Database
Data Sites | African Politics
Afrobarometer Data Collection
An African-led series of national public attitude surveys on democracy and governance in Africa
Data Sites | African Politics
African J. of Political Science & Int'l Relations
RSS | Research on politics and international relations especially those pertaining to Africa.
Journals | African Politics
Africa Research Institute Blog
Encourages debate, questions orthodoxy and challenges “received wisdom” in and about Africa.
Blogs | African Politics
African Dev. Bank Group Data Portal
Access to information on lending projects from 1967 up to now, the dataset includes basic information such as the p...
Data Sites | African Politics
Statistics South Africa
Data on people, economy, and living conditions.
Data Sites | African Politics

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Presidential Approval and the Inherited EconomyAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
*Michael Sances (Forthcoming)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


What Motivates Reasoning? A Theory of Goal-Dependent Political EvaluationAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Eric Groenendyk; Yanna Krupnikov (2021)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Sectarian Framing in the Syrian Civil WarAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Daniel Corstange; Erin York (2018)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


When Do Campaign Effects Persist for Years? Evidence from a Natural ExperimentAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
Kai Jäger (2020)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Disgust, Anxiety, and Political Learning in the Face of ThreatAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
*Scott Clifford; Jennifer Jerit (2018)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Can Transitional Justice Improve the Quality of Representation in New Democracies?Abstract \| Data \| Find Text
Milena Ang; Monika Nalepa (2019)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals


Gender, Political Knowledge and Descriptive Representation: The Impact of Long-Term SocializationAbstract \| Data \| Find Text
*Ruth Dassonneville; Ian McAllister (2018)
	Journal Archives \| More Journals

Am. J. of Political Science Dataverse
Replication datasets for articles as old as 2012, datasets for many forthcoming articles.
	Journal Archives

Portal of Public Use Datasets on Sub-Saharan Africa
From the National Bureau of Economic Research.
	Data Sites \| African Politics

IPUMS
Census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space.
	Data Sites \| Comp. Politics

J. of Information Tech. and Politics Dataverse
Replication for some articles in years 2008-2012. JITP home page.
	Journal Archives

Congressional Bills Project
information about more than 400,000 bills introduced in the U.S. Congress, currently 1947-2008, along with extensiv...
	Data Sites \| Am. Politics

Voteview Legacy Website
Keith Poole's web site for data on U.S. Congress, well-organized, thoroughly documented, updated frequently.
	Data Sites \| Am. Politics

Canadian Election Study
Thorough account of Canadian elections.
	Data Sites \| Comp. Politics

Kristin Kanthak
University of Pittsburgh, see replication data page.
	Authors \| Am. Politics

Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization Dataset
An ethnic fractionalization index for 165 countries across all continents. The dataset covers annually the period 1...
	Data Sites \| Comp. Politics

	Suggest a Link
Navigate to the page where you think your link should appear and look for a box that looks this this.

Univ. of Toronto J. of Political Science
A yearly, open access, peer-reviewed issue containing original research conducted by academics and students in all ...
	Journals

Crime, Law and Social Change
RSS \| peer reviewed journal that publishes essays and reviews addressing the political economy of organized crime whether...
	Journals \| Law & Courts

Social Science History
seeks to advance the study of the past by publishing research that appeals to the journal's interdisciplinary r...
	Journals

Political Behavior
RSS \| Publishes original research in the general fields of political behavior, institutions, processes, and policies.
	Journals \| Pol. Behavior

Review of African Political Economy
Radical analyses of trends, issues and social processes in Africa, adopting a broadly materialist interpretation of...
	Journals \| African Politics

International Theory
A peer reviewed journal which promotes theoretical scholarship about the positive, legal, and normative aspects of ...
	Journals

Urban Affairs Review
Published by the Urban Politics Section of the APSA.
	Journals

National Security Law Podcast
A weekly review of the latest legal controversies associated with the U.S. government's national security activitie...
	Blogs

Fully Automated
A show for people interested in power, resistance, and critical thinking hosted by Nicholas Kiersey, Professor of P...
	Podcasts

J. of Law, Econ. & Organization
RSS \| Promotes understanding by examining complex phenomena from a combined law, economics, and organization perspective
	Journals

U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call Votes in Congress
Pres. J. Adams's Positions: 5th House 5th Senate 6th House 6th Senate
	American Politics

The Essentials of Political Analysis, 6th Ed. (CQ/Sage, 2020)

Request exam copy Student & instructor resources Lecture videos
	My Publications

Live R Code Demos
Sample uses of the R Statistics Program for political science research. From Barry Edwards, Political Science Data.
	R Demos & Resources

Sample Syllabi for Research Methods Courses
Don't reinvent the wheel. Find courses that use your preferred software (SPSS, Stata, or R).
	Teaching Resources

Calculate Ideal Points of Federal Judges
This program implements the Giles, Hettinger, Peppers (GHP) method of estimating ideal points of federal judges in ...
	Data Sites \| Law & Courts

Create Cross-Tabulations with US Circuit Court Data
This resource allows you to analyze some of the variables coded in Phase Three of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal...
	Data Sites \| Law & Courts

Data Driven Documents
D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML,...
	Teaching Resources