COMPARATIVE POLITICS at the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Political Science Data

This page contains links to important or unusual datasets useful to comparativists. We welcome suggestions for expansion!

A
Arms Trade Database
Africa Research Program
Afrobarometer
Africa Research Central
ACE Project (Administration & Cost of Elections)
Americans & The World
Americas, Political Database of the Americas
Africa Chronologies, Political Information (selected countries)

B
Barriers to Entry and other datasets/papers (Rafael La Porta)
Budget/Appropriations Data (U.S, Japan, Canada)

C
CID-World Bank Data Surfer
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
Correlates of War Project
Clash of Civilization Data
Conflict Data Project by Walensteen and Sollenberg
CIA World Factbook
Canadian Election Data
Coppedge's Latin American Data
Centre for Applied Social Surveys
Center on Policy Attitudes
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Ministers (see also "Leaders" below)
Civil Wars and Violence (World Bank)
Constitutional Law Links (U. Chicago)
Constitutions of the World
Constitution Society
Conflict Links (U.S. Institute of Peace)
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe

D
Dictionary of Untranslatable Political Terms

E
Eurobarometer
New Europe Barometer
Economic Freedom Index
European Protest and Coercion Data
Ethnologue Country Index
Economic Growth Datasets

F
Famine Early Warning Data
Federal Statistics
Fenno's Research Interview Notes & U.S. Legislative Data
Forum of Federations
Freedom House Dataset
Foreign Broadcast Information Service

G
Gallup Organization
Genocide Documentation Center
GATT Trade Dispute by Erik Reinhardt
Governance & Anti-Corruption Data

H
Harvard-MIT Data Center
Haas Collective Security Data
Health Statistics, National Center for
Homelands--Autonomy, Secession, Independence Movements

I
ICPSR
IMF Archives
International Human Rights Database
International Boundary Database
International Trade Data
Inequality Watch
Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research

J
Japanese National Election Studies

K
Korean Social Science Data Center

L
Lijphart Election Archive
Leaders
Latin America Data (LAPIS) scroll down for links (below 1st table)

M
Minorities at Risk Dataset

N
Native American Constitutions and Law Digitization Project

O
OECD Database

P
Polity Datasets Archive (Jaggers & Gurr)
Pew Research Center
Political Science Data Resources by Richard Tucker
Patterns of Global Terrorism
Post-Internal War Accomodation and Repression Data Project
Parliamentary and Presidential Elections
PARLINE Database (parliaments)
People on War Project
Population Data
Parliaments on the Web
Parliamentary Data
Penn World Tables

R
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Relief Web
Regional Information Websites (U.S. Institute of Peace)

S
Social Science Data Collection at the University of San Diego
Social Science Data Archives-Europe
Swedish Social Science Data Center
Social Science Data at UCLA
SIPRI's Arms Transfer Database
Science and Human Rights Data Center
Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of Democracy Data

T
Trends in Developing Countries

U
UK Data Archive
UNICEF Data: Progress of Nations
UN Databases
US Census Bureau International Databases

V
Voter Turnout, Global

W
World Bank Data
World Values Survey