Getting Better All the Time? What We Know from Comparative Politics Research

About This Page

This page features compilations of links to data collections, authors, and journals for political science research on comparative politics.

Suggest a Link

ORIGINAL PROJECT: U.S. Presidents' Positions on Roll Call VotesPres. Tyler's Positions:
27th House 27th Senate
28th House 28th Senate

QUIZ YOURSELF: What is a federal mandate?

A requirement in federal legislation that forces states and municipalities to comply with certain rules.

Answer: Hover over the box!More of this: Review Intro. to Am. Gov't

Teach Political Analysis

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

Companions for SPSS, Stata, Excel & R. Practice with software of your choice.

MORE FOR TEACHERS: Sample Course Syllabi featuring our textbooks, varied software, with/without paper assignments

Review Terms for 5 Minutes - Pick chapters or just press play for quick study

Run Live R Demos in Browser - Excellent for online teaching

Links to More Resources for Teaching Political Analysis

Watch and Learn


How to Generate Uniformly Distributed Random Numbers
Using the Data Analysis Toolpak (6:08)

MORE VIDEOS: Lecture Videos for The Essentials of Political Analysis

Learn How-To Do It with Video Tutorials for R, Stata, SPSS, and Excel


Confidence Intervals (Using t-Distribution)
From John Estes Math (5:36)

Blogs, Podcasts & Journals

Acta Politica: .One of the few truly international political science journals with a broad scope across the discipline (published by Springer).

Power 3.0: .Explores how savvy authoritarian governments survive and thrive, and the ways that democracies are contending with this challenge.

WIDER Angle: .United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research addresses political and economic development issues

Party Politics: .(Sage Journals) Forum for the analysis of political parties.

Comparative Political Studies: .Scholarly work on comparative politics at both the cross-national and intra-national levels.

See All Political Science Journals

Comparative Politics Data Sites

Pew Global Attitudes Surveys: .Organized by survey, each dataset is identified by the name of the survey.

Educational Attainment Dataset: .Focus on 1950-2010

Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies: .Analysis of labor markets, social security incomes, institutions and governance, see research projects and datasets

Autocratic Regime Data: .Provides transition information for the 280 autocratic regimes in existence from 1946 to 2010

Canadian Election Study: .Thorough account of Canadian elections.

See All Comparative Politics Data Sites

New Comparative Politics Articles with Replication Data

The Geography of Repression and Opposition to AutocracyMaria Angelica Bautista; Felipe Gonzalez; Luis R Martinez; Pablo Muñoz; Mounu Prem (2023)

Accountability by Numbers: A New Global Transitional Justice Dataset (1946-2016)Genevieve Bates; Ipek Cinar; Monika Nalepa (2022)

Affluence and Congruence: Unequal Representation Around the WorldZach Warner; Noam Lupu (2022)

Candidate Filtering: The Strategic Use of Electoral Manipulations in Russia*David Szakonyi (2022)

Clientelism from the Client's Perspective: A Meta-Analysis of Ethnographic LiteratureMiquel Pellicer; Eva Wegner; Markus Bayer; Christian Tischmeyer (2022)

Constitutional Rigidity Matters: A Veto Players Approach*George Tsebelis (2022)

Do Authoritarian Elections Help the Poor? Evidence from Russian CitiesQuintin Beazer; *Ora John Reuter (2022)

Fighting Propaganda with Censorship: A Study of the Ukrainian Ban on Russian Social MediaYevgeniy Golovchenko (2022)

Hard Traveling: Unemployment and Road Infrastructure in the Shadow of Political ConflictAlexei Abrahams (2022)

Learning at Home and Abroad: How Competition Conditions the Diffusion of Party Strategies*Sebastian Juhl; *Laron K. Williams (2022)

= Abstract

= Data

= Details
Also see Journal Archives | Author Replication Data | All Subfield Articles

Authors with Datasets

Joel Johnson .Colorado State University - Pueblo

Romain Wacziarg .UCLA School of Management

Tom Pepinsky .Cornell University, see replication data

Gerald Schneider .Universitat Konstanz, see replication data.

Lisa Blaydes .

Jan Pierskalla .

Dave Armstrong .Western University in London, Ontario, replication files on research page.

Miriam Golden .UCLA, see dataverse.

Staffan Lindberg .

Vincenzo Emanuele .LUISS Guido Carli (Italy)

See All Authors with Datasets