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1 | Name | Field | Link | Description | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | #Election2020 Twitter Dataset | AP | https://github.com/echen102/us-pres-elections-2020 | "Twitter dataset on the 2020 US Presidential election" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Additonal Congressional Data Sources | AP | https://web.mit.edu/17.251/www/data_page.html | "The purpose of this page is to begin accumulating hyperlinks in one place to various sites around the country that house data relevant to studies of Congress, legislatures in general, and all the rest. " | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Afrobarometer | CP | https://afrobarometer.org | Public opinion data from Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) Model Policies | AP | https://alec.org/model-policy/ | ALEC is a (conservative) interest group that creates model policies to disseminate through the US state legislatures. This cite lists their model policies. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions (ATOP) | IR | http://www.atopdata.org/?fbclid=IwAR1jy79ap8gnsbU-e96hXNn3YpQBEfqftF_rNn2MsPHmNmWw35JZq1QQdvI | Content of military alliance agreements for all countries between 1815 and 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | American Geosciences Institute | Dataverse | http://www.agiweb.org/pubs/globalgis/datasets.html | Global GIS data | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | American local government elections database | AP | https://www.hks.harvard.edu/publications/american-local-government-elections-database-0 | "Database on 78k candidates in 57k elections in seven distinct local political offices in most medium and large cities and counties in the U.S. over the last three decades" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | American Municipal Officials Survey (AMOS) | AP | https://www.municipalsurvey.org/ | "Survey of elected municipal officials" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | American National Election Study (ANES) | AP | https://electionstudies.org/ | US opinion and participation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Arab Barometer | CP | https://www.arabbarometer.org/survey-data/data-downloads/ | Public opinion data in the Arab world | ||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) | IR | https://acleddata.com/about-acled/ | Global data on actors, locations, fatalities, and political violence/protests; coverage includes mostly recent years (2016-present), with some back to 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | BBC Sound Effects | Misc | https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk | BBC's library of sound effects | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | CHORUS: A New Dataset of State Interest Group Policy Positions in the United States | AP | https://dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.15139/S3/RPU1QP | CHORUS: A New Dataset of State Interest Group Policy Positions in the United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Study (CMPS) | AP | https://cmpsurvey.org/ | Data on racial and ethnic Americans, includes an oversample of non-white Americans | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Colonial Dates Dataset | CP | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/T9SDEW | Data on European colonial empires | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Comparative Study of Electoral Studies (CSES) | CP | https://cses.org/ | International electoral features (e.g. term lengths, executive system type) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | CongressData | AP | https://cspp.ippsr.msu.edu/congress/ | Data on the US Congressional districts and policy making | ||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Congressional Committee Datasets | AP | 1st-79th Congress: https://web.mit.edu/17.251/www/data_page.html#1 80th-102nd Congress: https://web.mit.edu/17.251/www/data_page.html#0 103rd-114th Congress: https://web.mit.edu/17.251/www/data_page.html#2 | "Records membership on all congressional committees for the periods covered in the study" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Congressional Oversight Records Database (CORD) | AP | cord-levin-center.org | "congressional oversight reports from the 106th Congress to the present day" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Constituency-Level Elections Archive | CP | https://electiondataarchive.org/ | "Repository of detailed election results at the constituency level for lower chamber and upper chamber legislative elections from around the world." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Cooperative Congressional Election Studies (CCES) | AP | https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/ | US and state Opinion and participation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Correct Voting Measures | AP | https://www.openicpsr.org/openicpsr/project/209844/version/V1/view | Includes measures of 'correct voting' derived from the ANES from 1972-2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Correlates of State Policy | AP | http://ippsr.msu.edu/public-policy/correlates-state-policy | US state characteristics (e.g. term limits, policy diffusion, legislative professionalism, policy and citizen liberalism) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Correlates of War (COW) | IR | https://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets | International wars, MIDs, military capabilities, etc | ||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) | Dataverse | https://www.cessda.eu/ | Metadata on surveys from Eurpoean countries | ||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | COVID States Project | AP | https://www.covidstates.org/ | 50-state public opinion survey related to COVID issues (e.g., vaccinations) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME) | AP | https://data.stanford.edu/dime | Database on political contributions and ideological mappings of political elites, interest groups, and political donors | ||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Democracy Fund + UCLA Nationscape Project | AP | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/CQFP3Z | Weekly public opinion surveys (total N~500,000) from July 2019 and January 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Democratic Erosion Event Dataset (DEED) | CP | https://www.democratic-erosion.com/event-dataset/ | "Capturing events related to democratic erosion and autocratic consolidation across over 100 countries since 2000" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Digitally Accountable Public Representation (DAPR) | AP | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/A9EPYJ | "online communication of 28,834 federal, state, and local elected officials" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Distribution of Military Capabilities (rDMC) Dataset | IR | https://www.militarycapabilities.com/ | Dataset on distribution of military capabilities across countries and time | ||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Disucssion, Voting, and Opinion Assignment Procedures of US State Courts of Last Resort | AP | https://davidhughesphd.com/data/ | "[D]ataset containing the discussion, voting, and opinion assignment procedures used at each of the 52 state courts of last resort." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Dynamic Process Tracing Methodology | Other | https://udel.edu/~redlawsk/dpte/overview.html | "The Dynamic Process Tracing Environment (DPTE) is a web-based system that allows any researcher interested in examining decision making over time to make use of the Dynamic Process Tracing methodology." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS) | AP | https://www.eac.gov/research-and-data/studies-and-reports | US state and county election information (e.g. number of votes cast, number of polling places, ballot machine types) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Electoral Legislation by Country | CP | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/TIH5FK | Data on election-related legislation across 165 countries | ||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Electoral Management Survey | CP | https://www.electoralintegrityproject.com/electoralmanagementsurvey | Survey of electoral authorities on how elections are run in their country | ||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Ethnic Power Relations Dataset | CP | https://icr.ethz.ch/data/epr/ | Comparative data on ethnic power relations | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | European Barometer | CP | https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/screen/home | Public opinion data in the European Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | European Mass Ideology | CP | http://www.chriswarshaw.com/data.php | Mass liberalism of European countries (1981-2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | European Social Survey (ESS) | CP | https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/ | European Opinion (and Participation?) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Executive Approval Database | CP | http://www.executiveapproval.org/ | Cross-national data on support for political executives | ||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Follow the Money | AP | https://www.followthemoney.org/ | Data on contributions and expenditrures for local elections, state elections, federal elections, and lobbysits information | ||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Freedom House (FH) | CP | https://freedomhouse.org/ | International measures of democracy-authoritarianism | ||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | General Social Survey (GSS) | AP | https://gss.norc.org/ | US (and state?) public opinion | ||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Global Dataset on Turnout | CP | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/NYXHU9 | Dataset on over 3000 eletions in 190 countries from 1945 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Global Sanctions Database | IR | https://www.globalsanctionsdatabase.com/ | Datasets of sanctions | ||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Google Dataset Search | Dataset of Datasets | https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/ | Google's Dataset Search engine, includes political science and non-political science datasets | ||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Governance Project | AP | https://www.techandciviclife.org/our-work/research-department/governance-project/ | "We offer a nationwide dataset of federal, state, and local elected officials." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Harvard Dataverse | Dataverse | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/ | Repository for data and replication files | ||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Herfindahl-Hirschman Index Calculator | Calculator | https://www.omnicalculator.com/finance/hhi | Calcualtes Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, typically used to measure market concentration but adapted for other uses (e.g., race, party) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Historical Conflict Event Dataset (HCED) | IR | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00220027221119085 | Global data on location, participants, and outcomes for military encounters from 1468BC to 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | ICPSR Dataverse | Dataverse | icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/peersdatahub/discover-dad.html | Repository for data and replication files | ||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | ICPSR Resource Center for Minority Data | AP | https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/RCMD/index.html | A repository of data on minorities in the United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System | AP | https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/?fbclid=IwAR1PrR98CMwilJ8BGx4RzcFS1dFFzidu5wkfOSvEohJ_y8rkeefyMFxCG6w | Information on US colleges, universities, and technical and vocational institutions | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Integrated Public Use Microdata Set (IPUMS) | CP | https://ipums.org/ | US (and state) and International data (health, participation, economy, time use, etc.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | International City/County Management Association Data | AP | https://icma.org/survey-research-datasets | Datasets on local and county management | ||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) | IR | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/E6PSGZ | International territorial issues (e.g. disputes, reconciliations) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Journal of Peace Research Replication Data | Dataverse | https://www.prio.org/journals/jpr/replicationdata | Dataverse for replication data for studies published in Journal of Peace Research | ||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Klarner Politics Publicly Available Datasets | AP | https://www.klarnerpolitics.org/datasets-1 | Includes data used in Dr. Carl Klarner's research, including historical and contemporary state legislative election returns, lists of governors, state competitiveness, and state partisan balance | ||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Latin American Public Opinion Project | CP | https://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/ | Public opinion data in the Americas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Latino Baromoter | CP | https://www.latinobarometro.org/latContents.jsp | Public opinion data from Latin America | ||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Latino Immigrant National Election Study | AP | https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/RCMD/studies/38129 | Data on Latino immigrant opinions and participation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Legislative Effectiveness | AP | https://thelawmakers.org/data-download | US (federal) legislator effectiveness | ||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Legislator Diversity | AP | https://www.legislatordiversity.com/ | State legislator gender, race, ethnicity, and party | ||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | LocalView | AP | https://localview.net/ | "database of local government public meetings" | ||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Malaysian Election Results | CP | https://github.com/TindakMalaysia/HISTORICAL-ELECTION-RESULTS | Historcial election data from Malaysisa (see also https://github.com/TindakMalaysia/GE15-Dataset) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Measuring the Political Salience of Supreme Court Cases | AP | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/29637 | Dataset measuring political salience of SCOTUS decisions | ||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Minorities at Risk | CP | http://www.mar.umd.edu/mar_data.asp | Data on politically active ethnic groups fro 1945 to the present | ||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | National Asian American Survey | AP | http://naasurvey.com/ | Survey on opinions and pariticipation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders | ||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | National Registry of Exonerations | AP | https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about.aspx | Data on exonerations in the United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | National Survey of Black Americans | AP | https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/NACDA/series/164 | Data on Black Americans from 1979-1992 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Open Elections | AP | https://openelections.net/ | "The goal of OpenElections is to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States, including federal, statewide and state legislative offices." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | ParlQuestionTime | CP | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ParlQuestionTime | Data on speech contributions, issue attention, and participation for a handful of parliaments | ||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Parties, Institutions, and Preferences (PIP) | CP | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/KRXPH4 | Comparative data on parties, institutions, and preferences | ||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Parties' Group Appeals Dataset | CP | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/NZQGST | Data on parties' group appeals in Iraq and Netherlands 1977-2015 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Party Adjusted Surrogate Judge Ideology Scores | AP | https://davidhughesphd.com/data/ | Idelogy scores for US State Supreme Court Justices | ||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Peace Accords Matrix | IR | https://peaceaccords.nd.edu/ | Data on implementation of intrastate peace agreements | ||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Perceptions of Electoral Integrity | CP | https://www.electoralintegrityproject.com/pei | Data on how well countries elections meet international election integrity standards | ||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | PlanScore | AP | https://planscore.org/ | Scores US state redistricting maps on how fair or gerrymandered they are | ||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | PolData | Dataset of Datasets | https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData | A much more expansive collection of political datasets | ||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Policy Mood Custom Series Application | AP | https://laits.utexas.edu/policymoods/ | "This application allows users to generate custom mood series from the policy moods data." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Policy Mood, Macropartisanship, and Macroideology | AP | https://stimson.web.unc.edu/data/ | Data on national policy mood, macroparisanship, and macro ideology | ||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Polity Project | CP | https://www.systemicpeace.org/polityproject.html | International measures of democracy-authoritarianism, including additional information such as forced population displacements and coups | ||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Populist | CP | https://popu-list.org/about/ | List of European parties classified as populist, far left, and/or far right | ||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Protected Areas Database | AP | https://www.usgs.gov/programs/gap-analysis-project/science/pad-us-data-download | national inventory of U.S. terrestrial and marine protected areas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Roper Center for Public Opinion Research | AP | https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ | US public opinion data on various topics and timespans | ||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | State and Local Level Estimates of Mass Ideology and Policy Liberalism (Caughey and Warshaw's measures) | AP | http://www.chriswarshaw.com/data.php | Includes data on ideology and/or policy liberalism at state (1936-2020) and local (2000-2022) geographies in the United States. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | State Capacity | AP | https://dataverse.unc.edu/citation?persistentId=doi:10.15139/S3/PB5UMO | Measure of state capacity | ||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | State Level Estimates of Felon Disenfranchisement | AP | https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/state-level-estimates-felon-disenfranchisement-united-states-2010 | Felon disenfranchisement at the US state level in 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | State Policy Innovation and Diffusion Database (SPID) | AP | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/spid | US state policy information, diffusion and adoption | ||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Subnational Corruption Database | CP | https://globaldatalab.org/governance/ | Subnational international data on corruption | ||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Survey of the Performance of American Elections (SPAE) | AP | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/SPAE | US and state opinion of elections (e.g., good or bad experience when voting) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | TrueViews | AP | https://trueviews.org/ | "TrueViews displays estimates of public opinion on many issues and at numerous geographic levels." | ||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Twitter History and Image Sharing | CP | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/14WGUG | Twitter data | ||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | U.S. Partisanship and Presidential Approval Dataset | AP | https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study?doi=10.25940/ROPER-31120311 | US Partisanship and presidential Approval (1948-2020) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | United Nations General Assembly Voting Data | IR | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/LEJUQZ | Dataset of roll-call votes in the UN General Assembly | ||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Uppsala Conflict Data Program | IR | https://ucdp.uu.se/ | Data on organized violence and civil war | ||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | US Census Bureau (US Census) | AP | https://data.census.gov/cedsci/ | Data on US populations (race, age, gender, income, education, etc.) at different geographic levels | ||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | US County Elections Dataset | AP | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/DGUMFI | Dataset of county-level election returns for presidential, U.S. Senate, and gubernatorial elections from 1872-2020 |