- Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies: .Analysis of labor markets, social security incomes, institutions and governance, see research projects and datasets
- Arab Barometer: .Scientifically reliable data on the politically-relevant attitudes of ordinary citizens.
- Archigos: .A data base on leaders 1875 - 2004.
- Australian Election Study: .Aims to provide a long-term perspective on stability and change in the political attitudes and behaviour of the Australian electorate.
- Authoritarian Regimes Dataset: .A comprehensive dataset on authoritarian regimes in the world between 1972-2014.
- Autocratic Regime Data: .Provides transition information for the 280 autocratic regimes in existence from 1946 to 2010
- Bayesian Corruption Index, The: .A composite index of the perceived overall level of corruption in countries around the world.
- Berlin Social Center: .Data-driven research on education and work, markets and choice, migration, democracy and autocracy, international politics and law.
- Canadian Election Study: .Thorough account of Canadian elections.
- Caucasus Research Resource Centers: .A network of research, resource and training centers established in 2003 in the capital cities of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, see datasets.
- CIRI Human Rights Dataset: .standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 15 internationally recognized human rights for 202 countries
- Comparative Agendas Project: .Collects and organizes data from archived sources to track policy outcomes across countries. See dataset codebooks.
- Comparative Political Data Set: .Collection of political and institutional country-level data. It consists of annual data for 36 democratic countries for the period of 1960 to 2015 or since their transition to democracy.
- Comparative Study of Electoral Systems: .A collaborative program of research among election study teams from around the world.
- Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset: .Information about the structure and generosity of social insurance benefits in 33 countries around the world
- Corruption Cases Databases: .An asset recovery watch database and settlements database from the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank and UNODC.
- Corruption Perceptions Index: .Transparency International scores countries on how corrupt their public sectors are seen to be.
- CoupCast - Political Forecasting: .Created by a team at One Earth Future to develop evidence-based approaches to understanding the risks of conflict.
- Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive: .Extensive coverage of many variables over time, full access requires buying license.
- Data on Governance: .From Peace Research Institute Oslo.
- Database of Political Institutions: .Institutional and electoral results data such as measures of checks and balances, tenure and stability of the government, identification of party affiliation and ideology, and fragmentation of opposition and government parties in the legislature.
- Datahub for Field Experiments in Economics and Public Policy: .Data from randomized experiments in the social sciences, as well as statistical code underlying published research results, surveys and documentation.
- Datasets on Democratic Deepening and Regression: .DEDERE Project on the causes of democratic deepening and regression.
- Datorium from GESIS: .A data repository service for the social science and economic science research community from GESIS and the Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences.
- Democracy Barometer: .A new instrument to measure the quality of established democracies.
- Development Economics Datasets: .Managed by Masayuki Kudamatsu
- Digital Society Project: .Aims to answer some of the most important questions about the internet and politics, the DSP dataset is the product of a global survey of hundreds of country and area experts.
- Economic Freedom of the World: .From the Fraser Institute.
- Educational Attainment Dataset: .Focus on 1950-2010
- Electoral Systems & the Personal Vote: .Colorado State University - Pueblo
- Environmental Performance Index: .Ranks 180 countries on 24 performance indicators across ten issue categories covering environmental health and ecosystem vitality
- EveryPolitician: .A simple but ambitious project to collect and share data about every politician in every country in the world, in a consistent, open format that anyone can use.
- Fragile States Index: .A ranking of 178 countries across 12 indicators of the risks and vulnerabilities faced by individual nations, see data.
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F (continued)- Freedom House: .Produces data on a number of core thematic issues related to democracy, political rights and civil liberties.
- Global Integrity: .Measures of government integrity around the world, see data and downloads page.
- Global Media Freedom Dataset: .Data on the evolution and devolution of media freedom in individual countries.
- Global Parliamentary Report: .Data on the structure, members, budget, staff, committees and sitting days of the world's parliaments.
- Global Restrictions on Religion: .Measures level of government restrictions on religion and social hostilities involving religion around the world, 2007-2016.
- Global State of Democracy Indices: .Depict democratic trends at the country, regional and global levels across a broad range of different attributes of democracy in the period 1975-2015.
- Global State Revenues & Expenditures: .Developed at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies.
- Governance Indicators: .From the Hertie School of Governance's Governance Report.
- Greifswald Comparative Politics: .See projects and datasets
- Groningen Growth & Dev. Center: .Platform for research on economic growth and development, comprehensive databases on indicators of growth and development that the Center compiles and maintains on a regular basis.
- Guide to Data on Developing Countries: .Compiled by Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development.
- Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization Dataset: .An ethnic fractionalization index for 165 countries across all continents. The dataset covers annually the period 1945-2013.
- Human Rights Data Analysis Group: .A non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world.
- Human Rights Measurement Initiative: .Tracks the human rights performance of countries.
- IMF Data Archive: .A range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators.
- Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance Datasets: .Measured related to sustainable democracy worldwide
- Institute for Social & Econ. Research: .Work includes British Household Panel Survey.
- Institute of Citizenship Studies (InCite): .Research and other initiatives related to the theme of citizenship in its legal, political, and social dimensions
- Institutional Quality Dataset: .From Aljaz Kuncic, covers 1990 - 2010
- Institutions and Elections Project: .contains information on de jure institutional provisions, electoral procedures, and electoral events for 170 countries in the period 1960-2012
- Int'l Labor Organization Stats: .The world's leading source of labor statistics.
- 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 sources into a single dataset.
- Inter-Parliamentary Union: .See their open data platform
- International Social Survey Programme: .A cross-national collaboration program conducting annual surveys on diverse topics relevant to social sciences.
- IPUMS: .Census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space.
- Israel National Election Studies: .Aims to investigate voting patterns, public opinion, and political participation in Israel.
- KOF Index of Globalization: .Measures the three main dimensions of globalization: economic, social, and political.
- KOF Swiss Economic Institute: .Extensive economic research, including Globalization Index.
- legislatoR: .Political, sociodemographic, and Wikipedia-related data on elected politicians across the globe for R environment.
- LIS Cross-National Data Center: .A data archive and research center dedicated to cross-national analysis, home to two databases: Luxembourg Income Study and Luxembourg Wealth Study.
- Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social Sciences: .The LISS panel (Netherlands) has been in full operation since October 2007, and all data are made available through the LISS data archive.
- Macrohistory Lann Bonn: .An active research hub in international macroeconomic and financial history, features Jorda-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database.
- Maddison Project Database: .Estimates of economic growth in the world economic between AD 1 and 2010
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M (continued)- Manifesto Project Database: .Provides the scientific community with parties' policy positions derived from a content analysis of parties' electoral manifestos.
- Multiculturalism Policy Index: .Information about multiculturalism policies in a standardized format that aids comparative research and contributes to the understanding of state-minority relations
- NatCen Social Research: .Britain's largest independent social research agency, features British Social Attitudes Data.
- Open Budget Survey: .A comprehensive analysis and survey that evaluates whether governments give the public access to budget information and opportunities to participate in the budget process at the national level.
- Our World in Data: .Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- Oxford COVID-19 Gov't Response Tracker: .Aims to track and compare government responses to the coronavirus outbreak worldwide rigorously and consistently.
- ParlGov: Parliaments & Gov'ts Database: .A data infrastructure for political science and contains information for all EU and most OECD democracies.
- Party Facts: .Links to datasets on political parties, an online platform about parties and their history.
- Penn World Table: .database with information on relative levels of income, output, input and productivity, covering 182 countries between 1950 and 2014
- Pew Global Attitudes Surveys: .Organized by survey, each dataset is identified by the name of the survey.
- Political Constraint Index (POLCON): .Dataset by Witold Henisz at Wharton
- Political Data Yearbook: .Captures election results, national referenda, changes in government, and institutional reforms for a range of countries, within and beyond the EU.
- Political Terror Scale: .Measures levels of political violence and terror that a country experiences in a particular year based on a 5-level "terror scale" originally developed by Freedom House, see data page.
- Polity Project: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions: .From The Center for Systematic Peace.
- Project on Democratic Accountability & Citizen-Politician Linkages: .Data collection in more than 80 electoral democracies. The expert surveys for data collection were done in 2008 and 2009.
- Quality of Government Institute: .Research on the causes, consequences and nature of good government, see data download page.
- Social Policy Indicators (SPIN): .Comparative data on social rights and duties of citizens
- Standardized World Income Inequality Database, The: .Goal of project is to maximize the comparability of income inequality data while maintaining the widest possible coverage across countries and over time.
- State Antiquity Index: .This dataset gives a score from 0 to 50 for the presence of a supra-tribal polity within the present-day boundaries of each of 149 countries.
- Transparency International: .A suite of measures of government corruption.
- Trivedi Centre for Political Data: .Promotes data-driven research, policy work and journalism on India’s political life by producing and disseminating in open access scientifically collected and treated political data.
- UN Comtrade Database: .Detailed global trade data. UN Comtrade is a repository of official international trade statistics and relevant analytical tables.
- UN Univ. World Inst. for Dev. Econ. Research: .Provides economic analysis and policy advice with the aim of promoting sustainable and equitable development for all, see datasets
- United Nations Statistics Division: .Compiles and disseminates global statistical information
- V-Dem (Varieties of Democracy): .Aims to produce better Indicators of Democracy.
- Wage Indicator: .Online, up-to-date labor market data.
- Who Governs?: .A database of who governs in Europe and beyond.
- World Bank Open Data: .Free and open access to global development data
- World Bank's Data Catalog: .The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources.
- World Database of Happiness: .Archive of research findings on subjective enjoyment of life
- World Economics and Politics Dataverse: .A queryable data resource for comparative and international political economy.
- World Inequality Database: .Aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth
- World Press Freedom Index: .From Reporters Without Borders
- Worldwide Governance Indicators: .From the World Bank.
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