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Martin-Quinn Scores

mqscores.wustl.edu

Contains the so-called "Martin-Quinn" measures of judicial ideology..

Israel National Election Studies

ines.tau.ac.il

Aims to investigate voting patterns, public opinion, and political participation in Israel..

Uppsala Conflict Data Program

ucdp.uu.se

The world's main provider of data on organized violence and the oldest ongoing data collection project for civil war, with a history of almost 40 years..

Danish National Election Study

valgprojektet.dk

Data from all 16 elections in the 1971-2011 period..

Judicial Research Initiative

artsandsciences.sc.edu

From the University of South Carolina, easy to navigate site contains key datasets for judicial behavior research.

ORIGINAL PROJECT: Studying Presidents

Pres. John Quincy Adams'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.