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

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

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

Two Weeks Notice: .A Latin American politics blog from Greg Weeks of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

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

Governance for Development: .From the World Bank.

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

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Comparative Politics Data Sites

Political Constraint Index (POLCON): .Dataset by Witold Henisz at Wharton

IMF Data Archive: .A range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators.

V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy): .Aims to produce better Indicators of Democracy.

United Nations Statistics Division: .Compiles and disseminates global statistical information

Manifesto Project Database: .Provides the scientific community with parties' policy positions derived from a content analysis of parties' electoral manifestos.

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Replication Datasets for New Articles

Macropartisanship in Multiparty Systems: A Comparative Study of Five DemocraciesHanako Ohmura (2023) POLBEH, more info.
R files: 20, datasets: 34

Party Positions from Wikipedia Classifications of Party IdeologyMichael Herrmann, +1 more author (2023) POLAN, more info.
archives: 1

The Geography of Repression and Opposition to AutocracyMaria Angelica Bautista, +4 more authors (2023) AJPS, more info.
Stata files: 3, other files: 9, PDF files: 26, datasets: 34, text files: 25, LaTeX files: 25

A Bayesian Alternative to Synthetic Control for Comparative Case StudiesXun Pang, +2 more authors (2022) POLAN, more info.
archives: 1

A Clarity Model of District Representation: District Magnitude and Pork PrioritiesMathias Tromborg, +1 more author (2022) LSQ, more info.
Stata files: 2, datasets: 3, text files: 3

Accountability by Numbers: A New Global Transitional Justice Dataset (1946-2016)Genevieve Bates, +2 more authors (2022) POP, more info.
Stata files: 1, text files: 1, datasets: 1

Affluence and Congruence: Unequal Representation Around the WorldZach Warner, +1 more author (2022) JOP, more info.
R files: 3, datasets: 2, text files: 1

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Authors with Datasets

Johnson, Joel .Colorado State University - Pueblo

Jensen, Nathan .Professor, University at Texas Austin

Blaydes, Lisa .

Golder, Sona .Penn. State Univ., see research page

Brule, Rachel .

Dancygier, Rafaela .

Franzese, Robert .Univ. of Michigan, replication files on publications page.

Tsebelis, George .Professor of Political Science, Univ. of Michigan, see data page.

Christensen, Darin .

Moral, Mert .Sabanc? University, Istanbul-Turkey, see dataverse.

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