Data

This page contains links to all datasets reviewed or announced in the newsletter, and all winners of the "Best Dataset" prize. Members are encouraged to send their favorite datasets or dataset links to the editors for sharing through this website.

Political Economy

Luxembourg Income Study (Winner of 2004 Dataset Prize)

The Segura-Kaufman dataset on globalization, domestic politics, and social spending in Latin America that is reviewed in the Winter 2004 issue is here in an Excel file.

Price Liberalization, Privatization and Institutional Reform in 18 Postcommunist Countries (1976-2000) (Petia Kostadinova) http://plaza.ufl.edu/petiak/datasets.htm

Gapminder World: This site displays eighteen socioeconomic time series in the Gapminder Foundation's Trendalyzer software, which produces animated scatterplots. www.gapminder.org/world.

Lyle Scruggs, Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset. http://www.sp.uconn.edu/~scruggs/wp.htm (Winner of 2007 Dataset Prize)

The State

World Bank Governance Indicators (1996-2004): http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/govdata/.

Update of the above through 2007: Governance Matters VII: http://info.worldbank.org/governance/
wgi/index.asp

DataGob: A portal to 400 indicators on governance, democracy, rule of law, decentralization, markets, society, public administration, and transparency. http://www.iadb.org/datagob/ .

The Global Integrity Index contains 23 indicators of Civil Society, Public Information, and Media; Elections; Government Accountability; Administration and Civil Service; Oversight and Regulation; and Anti-Corruption and Rule of Law. http://report.globalintegrity.org/globalIndex.cfm.

Jonathan Fox et al., The Religion and the State Dataset. Reviewed in the Summer 2008 issue.

Regimes and Regime Change

The Alvarez, Cheibub, Limongi, and Przeworski dataset reviewed in the Summer 2003 issue is here in Excel or SPSS format. The codebook is here.

Freedom House ratings of Political Rights and Civil Liberties: http://www.freedomhouse.org

Coppedge/Reinicke Polyarchy and Contestation scales for 1985 and 2000: http://www.nd.edu/~mcoppedg/crd/datacrd.htm

BLM Democracy Scale for Central America: 1900-1999, by Kirk Bowman, Fabrice Lehoucq, and James Mahoney: http://blmdemocracy.gatech.edu.

David Cingranelli and David Richards, the CIRI Human Rights Dataset.

The Quality of Government Institute's Cross-Sectional and Cross-Sectional Time Series Dataset, reviewed in the Summer 2006 issue: www.qog.pol.gu.se.

The Schneider-Schmitter Democratization Dataset, 1974-2000: http://www.personal.ceu.hu/departs/personal/Carsten_Schneider/.

Data on USAID Democratic Governance Programs: http://www.pitt.edu/~politics/democracy/democracy.html

Contestation and Inclusiveness: Indicators of Dahl's two dimensions of polyarchy created by Michael Coppedge, Angel Alvarez, and Claudia Maldonado from Principal Components Analysis of the most extensive and commonly used indicators of democracy. Covers most countries, 1950-2000. http://www.nd.edu/~mcoppedg/crd/datacrd.htm.

Unified Democracy Scores (UDS): Daniel Pemstein, Stephen Meserve, and James Melton have produced an indicator of democracy that measures the latent dimension underlying ten commonly used democracy
indicators. This is done in a way that makes it possible to treat this scale as interval data.

http://www.clinecenter.uiuc.edu/research/affiliatedresearch/UDS/

Institutions

World Bank Database on Political Institutions (DPI) (Thorsten Beck, George Clarke, Alberto Groff, Philip Keefer, and Patrick Walsh) Data: http://www.worldbank.org/research/bios/keefer/DPI2000_distributed.zip

Codebook: http://www.worldbank.org/research/growth/pdfiles/DPIvariables/pdf

Brazilian politics data, especially on legislative behavior: Brazilianpolitics.com

Recorded vote data (John Carey): www.dartmouth.edu/~jcarey

Vote shares of Left-Right blocs in Latin American elections (Michael Coppedge): http://www.nd.edu/~mcoppedg/crd/datalaps.htm

Party Policy in Modern Democracies: Data file of policy position means, SDs, N for parties in 47 countries, with codebook; by Kenneth Benoit and Michael Laver: http://www.politics.tcd.ie/ppmd/.

Elections and Democracy in Africa, 1989-2003, by Staffan Lindberg: http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/lindberg/.

VoteWorld archive of data on legislative roll-call voting throughout the international community: http://ucdata.berkeley.edu:7101/new_web/VoteWorld/voteworld/index.html.

Psephos: Adam Carr's archive of recent election results from 175 countries. http://psephos.adam-carr.net/.

Dawn Brancati's collection of results from 1000 or more constituency-level elections in more than 60 countries from 1944 to 2007: http://www.cle.wustl.edu/.

Protest and Repression Data (Ron Francisco): http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~ranfran/data/index.html. Winner of 2007 Dataset Prize.

The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA), located at www.thearda.com.

"Citizenship, Involvement, and Democracy" survey dataset, by the Center for Democracy and Civil Society at Georgetown University, directed by Marc Morjé Howard with the assistance of James L. Gibson and Dietlind Stolle: www.uscidsurvey.org.

Uppsala Conflict Data Project (UCDP): www.pcr.uu.se/research/UCDP/.

Research Network on Gender Politics and the State (RNGS) dataset on State Feminism: http://libarts.wsu.edu/polisci/rngs.

World Christian Database, containing data from the World Christian Encyclopedia: http://worldchristiandatabase.org/wcd/.

The economists Alberto Alesina, Arnaud Devleeschauwer, William Easterly, Sergio Kurlat, and Romain Wacziarg have compiled indicators of the sizes of ethnic, religious, and linguistic groups and used them to calculate indices of each type of fractionalization. http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty_pages/romain.wacziarg/downloads/fractionalization.xls

Public Opinion

Eurobarometer: http://europa.eu.int/comm.public_opinion/

and www.gesis.org/en/data_service/eurobarometer

World Values Study – European Values Study: www.worldvaluessurvey.org/

International Social Survey Program (ISSP): www.issp.org and www.gesis.org/en/data_service/issp/

Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES): http://www.cses.org

Global Barometers: www.globalbarometer.org/

New Europe Barometers: www.cspp.strath.ac.uk

Afrobarometer: www.afrobarometer.org

Latinobarómetro: www.latinobarometro.org

Asian Barometer: www.eastasiabarometer.org

European Social Survey (ESS): naticent02.uuhost.uk.uu.net and http://ess.nsd.uib.no

Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP): www.lapopsurveys.org

Pew Global Attitudes Survey: www.people-press.org/pgap/

Gallup International Voice of the People: www.voice-of-the-people.net/

"Citizenship, Involvement, and Democracy" survey dataset, by the Center for Democracy and Civil Society at Georgetown University, directed by Marc Morjé Howard with the assistance of James L. Gibson and Dietlind Stolle: www.uscidsurvey.org.

Modernization and Cultural Change: The Human Development Sequence cross-sectional data used by Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel in their 2005 book of the same name: www.world-valuessurvey.org/publications/human-development.html.

Archives

Richard Tucker, an international relations specialist at Vanderbilt, has compiled a "Replication Data Sets Archive" that offers links to many of the datasets used in publications. Many of these are useful for research in comparative politics or international relations. http://www.vanderbilt.edu/~rtucker/methods/replication/

The Council of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA) "promotes the acquisition, archiving and distribution of electronic data for social science teaching and research." Its webpage links to 14 ICPSR-like data archives (including ICPSR) in the U.S. and Canada, 21 in Europe, and 5 others in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Israel, and Uruguay. http://www.nsd.uib.no/cessda/europe.html

The UCSD Social Science Data Center's "Social Science Data on the Internet" page allows one to search or browse 748 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses, and more. http://odwin.ucsd.edu/idata/

University of Michigan Comparative Politics listing of 80 websites with useful data: http://polisci.lsa.umich.edu/grad/comparative/data.htm.

The Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University has a Dataverse Network that links to many individual scholars' datasets, especially replication datasets: http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/.

Data on comparative politics reading lists and graduate survey courses

Data on Dissertations in political science, 1985-2004