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Special Edition Articles with Replication Data

States in the Customs House: Institutional Reforms and Structural Change in Mexican Trade PolicyAnthony Pezzola (2013) ISQ, more info.

Institutionalized Police Brutality: Torture, the Militarization of Security and the Reform of Inquisitorial Criminal Justice in Mexico*Beatriz Magaloni, +1 more author (2020) APSR, more info.

Are Voters Too Afraid to Tackle Corruption? Survey and Experimental Evidence from MexicoOmar Garcia Ponce, +2 more authors (2021) PSRM, more info.

High-Profile Criminal Violence: Why Drug Cartels Murder Government Officials and Party Candidates in MexicoGuillermo Trejo, +1 more author (2021) BJPS, more info.

Elite Competition and State Capacity Development: Theory and Evidence from Post-Revolutionary MexicoFrancisco Garfias (2018) APSR, more info.

Electoral Accountability and Particularistic Legislation: Evidence from an Electoral Reform in MexicoLucia Motolinia (2021) APSR, more info.

Regulation of Speech and Media Coverage of Corruption: An Empirical Analysis of the Mexican PressPiero Stanig (2015) AJPS, more info.

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Past Special Editions: Gun Violence; Russia-Ukraine War; Donald Trump

SPECIAL EDITION: The Perils and Promise of Politics in Mexico

Teach Political Analysis

Theory & Concepts:
The Essentials of Political Analysis, 6th Edition. Classic introductory text, clear writing, helps students learn, great ancillaries. More info.

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Watch & Learn


David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Many research-oriented videos on wide range of Latin American studies topics.


How to Make and Interpret a Scatterplot
From Matt Macarty (7:08).

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More Q. Than A.

Racial Segregation in American Prisons: How Widespread?
Racial segregation seems to be standard practice in prison. Prisoners are assigned to cells or...

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Why Did State Legislatures Give Up Power to Pick Presidential Electors?

Blogs, Podcasts & Journals

Business and Politics: .Features articles that use the tools of social science to illuminate contemporary policy issues such as business strategy in weakly institutionalized environments, private regulation and privatization of services, and the relationship between busines

Politics and the Life Sciences: .Official journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, an American Political Science Association (APSA) Related Group.

FiveThirtyEight Politics: .Excellent data visualizations

Political Communication: .Features research at the intersection of politics and communication.

Rev. of African Political Econ. Blog: .Short articles to highlight developments on the continent and comment on the dynamics of protest, shifting patterns of political economy and issues of historical concern.

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Data Sites

Democracy Barometer: .A new instrument to measure the quality of established democracies.

German Socio-Economic Panel: .A longitudinal survey of households in Germany from 1984 to 2016. Variables include household composition, employment, occupations, earnings, health and satisfaction indicators.

SIPRI Databases on Global Security: .Features data on arms transfers, multilateral peace operations, military expenditures, arms industry, and other topics.

Issue Correlates of War (ICOW): .A research project that is collecting systematic data on contentious issues in world politics.

Berlin Social Center: .Data-driven research on education and work, markets and choice, migration, democracy and autocracy, international politics and law.

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Authors with Datasets

Leeds, Brett Ashley .Rice University

Reuter, Ora John .

Imai, Kosuke .

Golden, Miriam .UCLA, see dataverse.

King, Gary .Harvard University

Lee, Alexander .Rochester

Pierskalla, Jan .

Johnson, Joel .Colorado State University - Pueblo

Oskarsson, Sven .

Hager, Anselm .

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