Political Science Data Collections for Comparative Politics

Analysis of labor markets, social security incomes, institutions and governance..

Scientifically reliable data on the politically-relevant attitudes of ordinary citizens..

A data base on leaders 1875 - 2004..

Strives to democratize access to the best data on religion, now including American and international collections..

Aims to provide a long-term perspective on stability and change in the political attitudes and behaviour of the Australian electorate..

A comprehensive dataset on authoritarian regimes in the world between 1972-2014..

Provides transition information for the 280 autocratic regimes in existence from 1946 to 2010.

A composite index of the perceived overall level of corruption in countries around the world..

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

Thorough account of Canadian elections..

A network of research, resource and training centers established in 2003 in the capital cities of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, see datasets..

standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 15 internationally recognized human rights for 202 countries.

Collects and organizes data from archived sources to track policy outcomes across countries. See dataset codebooks..

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..

A collaborative program of research among election study teams from around the world..

Information about the structure and generosity of social insurance benefits in 33 countries around the world.

Transparency International scores countries on how corrupt their public sectors are seen to be..

Extensive coverage of many variables over time, full access requires buying license..

From Peace Research Institute Oslo..

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..

Data from randomized experiments in the social sciences, as well as statistical code underlying published research results, surveys and documentation..

DEDERE Project on the causes of democratic deepening and regression..

A data repository service for the social science and economic science research community from GESIS and the Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences..

A new instrument to measure the quality of established democracies..

Managed by Masayuki Kudamatsu.

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..

From the Fraser Institute..

Focus on 1950-2010.

Colorado State University - Pueblo.

Ranks 180 countries on 24 performance indicators across ten issue categories covering environmental health and ecosystem vitality.

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..

A ranking of 178 countries across 12 indicators of the risks and vulnerabilities faced by individual nations, see data..

Produces data on a number of core thematic issues related to democracy, political rights and civil liberties..

Measures of government integrity around the world, archived data..

Data on the evolution and devolution of media freedom in individual countries..

Data on the structure, members, budget, staff, committees and sitting days of the world's parliaments..

Depict democratic trends at the country, regional and global levels across a broad range of different attributes of democracy in the period 1975-2015..

Developed at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies..

From the Hertie School of Governance's Governance Report..

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..

Compiled by Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development..

An ethnic fractionalization index for 165 countries across all continents. The dataset covers annually the period 1945-2013..

A non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world..

Tracks the human rights performance of countries..

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

Measured related to sustainable democracy worldwide.

Work includes British Household Panel Survey..

Research and other initiatives related to the theme of citizenship in its legal, political, and social dimensions.

From Aljaz Kuncic, covers 1990 - 2010.

contains information on de jure institutional provisions, electoral procedures, and electoral events for 170 countries in the period 1960-2012.

The world's leading source of labor statistics..

Seeks to provide a public good to the field by standardizing and merging together variables from 89 IPE data sources into a single dataset..

The IPU facilitates parliamentary diplomacy and empowers parliaments and parliamentarians to promote peace, democracy and sustainable development around the world..

A cross-national collaboration program conducting annual surveys on diverse topics relevant to social sciences..

Census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space..

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

Measures the three main dimensions of globalization: economic, social, and political..

Extensive economic research, including Globalization Index..

Political, sociodemographic, and Wikipedia-related data on elected politicians across the globe for R environment..

A data archive and research center dedicated to cross-national analysis, home to two databases: Luxembourg Income Study and Luxembourg Wealth Study..

The LISS panel (Netherlands) has been in full operation since October 2007, and all data are made available through the LISS data archive..

An active research hub in international macroeconomic and financial history, features Jorda-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database..

Estimates of economic growth in the world economic between AD 1 and 2010.

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

Information about multiculturalism policies in a standardized format that aids comparative research and contributes to the understanding of state-minority relations.

Britain's largest independent social research agency, features British Social Attitudes Data..

Each observation in the National Level Party Systems dataset (NLPS) and the District Level Party Systems dataset (DPLS) is the party system at the national or district level, respectively, in a given election. In addition to conventional measures like the effective number of parties are variables such as the size of the largest party, list type, and the vote shares for presidential candidates. .

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..

Research and data to make progress against the world's largest problems..

Aims to track and compare government responses to the coronavirus outbreak worldwide rigorously and consistently..

A data infrastructure for political science and contains information for all EU and most OECD democracies..

Links to datasets on political parties, an online platform about parties and their history..

database with information on relative levels of income, output, input and productivity, covering 182 countries between 1950 and 2014.

Organized by survey, each dataset is identified by the name of the survey..

Dataset by Witold Henisz at Wharton.

Captures election results, national referenda, changes in government, and institutional reforms for a range of countries, within and beyond the EU..

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..

From The Center for Systematic Peace..

Data collection in more than 80 electoral democracies. The expert surveys for data collection were done in 2008 and 2009..

Research on the causes, consequences and nature of good government, see data download page..

A set of measures that systematically gauge the intersection between government and religion. Specifically, it examines government religion policy. .

Features annual World Press Freedom Index.

Comparative data on social rights and duties of citizens.

Goal of project is to maximize the comparability of income inequality data while maintaining the widest possible coverage across countries and over time..

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..

A suite of measures of government corruption..

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..

Detailed global trade data. UN Comtrade is a repository of official international trade statistics and relevant analytical tables..

Maintains the International Database on Corruption Damage Reparation and Legal Standing for Victims of Corruption..

Provides economic analysis and policy advice with the aim of promoting sustainable and equitable development for all, see datasets.

Compiles and disseminates global statistical information.

Aims to produce better Indicators of Democracy..

Online, up-to-date labor market data..

A database of who governs in Europe and beyond..

Free and open access to global development data.

The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources..

Archive of research findings on subjective enjoyment of life.

A queryable data resource for comparative and international political economy..

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.

From the World Bank..