Dataset of Political Science Datasets.xlsx

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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	Cooperative Congressional Election Studies (CCES)	AP	https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/	US and state Opinion and participation
22	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
23	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)
24	Correlates of War (COW)	IR	https://correlatesofwar.org/data-sets	International wars, MIDs, military capabilities, etc
25	Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)	Dataverse	https://www.cessda.eu/	Metadata on surveys from Eurpoean countries
26	COVID States Project	AP	https://www.covidstates.org/	50-state public opinion survey related to COVID issues (e.g., vaccinations)
27	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
28	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
29	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"
30	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"
31	Distribution of Military Capabilities (rDMC) Dataset	IR	https://www.militarycapabilities.com/	Dataset on distribution of military capabilities across countries and time
32	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."
33	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."
34	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)
35	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
36	Electoral Management Survey	CP	https://www.electoralintegrityproject.com/electoralmanagementsurvey	Survey of electoral authorities on how elections are run in their country
37	Ethnic Power Relations Dataset	CP	https://icr.ethz.ch/data/epr/	Comparative data on ethnic power relations
38	European Barometer	CP	https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/screen/home	Public opinion data in the European Union
39	European Mass Ideology	CP	http://www.chriswarshaw.com/data.php	Mass liberalism of European countries (1981-2016)
40	European Social Survey (ESS)	CP	https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/	European Opinion (and Participation?)
41	Executive Approval Database	CP	http://www.executiveapproval.org/	Cross-national data on support for political executives
42	Follow the Money	AP	https://www.followthemoney.org/	Data on contributions and expenditrures for local elections, state elections, federal elections, and lobbysits information
43	Freedom House (FH)	CP	https://freedomhouse.org/	International measures of democracy-authoritarianism
44	General Social Survey (GSS)	AP	https://gss.norc.org/	US (and state?) public opinion
45	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
46	Global Sanctions Database	IR	https://www.globalsanctionsdatabase.com/	Datasets of sanctions
47	Google Dataset Search	Dataset of Datasets	https://datasetsearch.research.google.com/	Google's Dataset Search engine, includes political science and non-political science datasets
48	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."
49	Harvard Dataverse	Dataverse	https://dataverse.harvard.edu/	Repository for data and replication files
50	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)
51	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
52	ICPSR Dataverse	Dataverse	icpsr.umich.edu/web/pages/peersdatahub/discover-dad.html	Repository for data and replication files
53	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
54	Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System	AP	https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/?fbclid=IwAR1PrR98CMwilJ8BGx4RzcFS1dFFzidu5wkfOSvEohJ_y8rkeefyMFxCG6w	Information on US colleges, universities, and technical and vocational institutions
55	Integrated Public Use Microdata Set (IPUMS)	CP	https://ipums.org/	US (and state) and International data (health, participation, economy, time use, etc.)
56	International City/County Management Association Data	AP	https://icma.org/survey-research-datasets	Datasets on local and county management
57	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)
58	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
59	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
60	Latin American Public Opinion Project	CP	https://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/	Public opinion data in the Americas
61	Latino Baromoter	CP	https://www.latinobarometro.org/latContents.jsp	Public opinion data from Latin America
62	Latino Immigrant National Election Study	AP	https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/RCMD/studies/38129	Data on Latino immigrant opinions and participation
63	Legislative Effectiveness	AP	https://thelawmakers.org/data-download	US (federal) legislator effectiveness
64	Legislator Diversity	AP	https://www.legislatordiversity.com/	State legislator gender, race, ethnicity, and party
65	LocalView	AP	https://localview.net/	"database of local government public meetings"
66	Malaysian Election Results	CP	https://github.com/TindakMalaysia/HISTORICAL-ELECTION-RESULTS	Historcial election data from Malaysisa (see also https://github.com/TindakMalaysia/GE15-Dataset)
67	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
68	Minorities at Risk	CP	http://www.mar.umd.edu/mar_data.asp	Data on politically active ethnic groups fro 1945 to the present
69	National Asian American Survey	AP	http://naasurvey.com/	Survey on opinions and pariticipation of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
70	National Registry of Exonerations	AP	https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/about.aspx	Data on exonerations in the United States
71	National Survey of Black Americans	AP	https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/NACDA/series/164	Data on Black Americans from 1979-1992
72	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."
73	ParlQuestionTime	CP	https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ParlQuestionTime	Data on speech contributions, issue attention, and participation for a handful of parliaments
74	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
75	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
76	Party Adjusted Surrogate Judge Ideology Scores	AP	https://davidhughesphd.com/data/	Idelogy scores for US State Supreme Court Justices
77	Peace Accords Matrix	IR	https://peaceaccords.nd.edu/	Data on implementation of intrastate peace agreements
78	Perceptions of Electoral Integrity	CP	https://www.electoralintegrityproject.com/pei	Data on how well countries elections meet international election integrity standards
79	PlanScore	AP	https://planscore.org/	Scores US state redistricting maps on how fair or gerrymandered they are
80	PolData	Dataset of Datasets	https://github.com/erikgahner/PolData	A much more expansive collection of political datasets
81	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."
82	Policy Mood, Macropartisanship, and Macroideology	AP	https://stimson.web.unc.edu/data/	Data on national policy mood, macroparisanship, and macro ideology
83	Polity Project	CP	https://www.systemicpeace.org/polityproject.html	International measures of democracy-authoritarianism, including additional information such as forced population displacements and coups
84	Populist	CP	https://popu-list.org/about/	List of European parties classified as populist, far left, and/or far right
85	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
86	Roper Center for Public Opinion Research	AP	https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/	US public opinion data on various topics and timespans
87	Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset	CP	https://noahdasanaike.github.io/sage.html	"SAGE collects lower-house parliamentary and presidential election returns for 110 countries at the smallest unit each electoral authority publishes"
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	The Elections Archive (THEA)	CP	https://electiondataarchive.org/	"Repository of subnational election results and associated materials" (Includes CLEA)
95	TrueViews	AP	https://trueviews.org/	"TrueViews displays estimates of public opinion on many issues and at numerous geographic levels."
96	Twitter History and Image Sharing	CP	https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/14WGUG	Twitter data
97	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)
98	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
99	Uppsala Conflict Data Program	IR	https://ucdp.uu.se/	Data on organized violence and civil war
100	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