Lukol Directory: Science: Social Sciences: Political Science: Data Resources

Minorities at Risk
Independent, university-based research project that monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in countries with a population of at least 500,000. Selected materials available online, as well as publication information, personnel directory, and related links.
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/cidcm/inscr/mar/

Society for Political Methodology
Site of the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association. Abstacts of conference reports and working papers, information about research and teaching, links to computing and analysis resources, and newsletter and journal archives.
http://web.polmeth.ufl.edu/

European Decision Makers Survey
The Eurobarometer has been engaged in the field of public opinion measurement for over twenty years, surveying both the general public and special target groups as needed by the different services of the Commission.
http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/

UC-San Diego
Social science data online: conflict, aggression, violence and wars; study descriptions and numeric data.
http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/ssdc/conf.html

Международная Группа по Предотвращению Кризисов
официальный сайт некоммерческой международной организации, занимающейся укреплением способности международного сообщества прогнозировать, понимать и действовать в целях предотвращения и сдерживания конфликтов.
http://www.icg.org/

American Association of Public Opinion Resources
Provides guides, standards, definitions, recommended and condemned practices for public policy survey data collection.
http://www.aapor.org/

Qualitative Data Archival Resource Centre
The Data Archive was set up in 1967 in order to retain the most significant machine-readable data from the research which it funds. Thus crucial data can be re-analysed by other researchers, and the money spent on research becomes not only an immediate outlay, but an investment for the future.
http://www.essex.ac.uk/qualidata/

EUGene Program
EUGene serves as a data management tool for creating data sets for use in the quantitative analysis of international relations; with the country-year, directed-dyad-year, and directed-dispute-dyad-year as the unit of analysis.
http://eugenesoftware.org/

Political Handbook of the World Home Page
Political Handbook of the World is an annual reference book containing separate sections on every country in the world and more than 100 intergovernmental organizations, such as NATO, OPEC, and UN affiliates. Each edition completely updates political developments over the past year while retaining the extensive background information necessary for researchers to place current events in a comprehensive historical perspective.
http://phw.binghamton.edu/

GESIS
GESIS is an infrastructural association which supplies fundamental social science services on a national and international level, both in terms of theory and practice. GESIS consists of the institutes IZ, ZA, ZUMA, and keeps a branch office in Berlin. It is an institution of "Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz" (WGL). GESIS maintains multiple national as well as international co-operations.
http://www.social-science-gesis.de/

Lijphart Election Archive
A research collection of district level election results and statistics for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries. Catalog and some online datasets, plus project history, reviews, publications, and links. Housed at the University of California, San Diego.
http://dodgson.ucsd.edu/lij/

Correlates of War (COW) Project
Ongoing effort at the University of Michigan to study the conditions associated with the outbreak of war, as well as with the conditions surrounding militarized disputes. With history, bibliography, and links.
http://www.umich.edu/~cowproj/

Jane's IntelWeb
Monitors developments in terrorist and intelligence activity worldwide. Site is fee-based, but does provide limited free services.
http://intelweb.janes.com/

ACLP Data Set
This is the data set compiled by Adam Przeworski, Michael Alverez et al. and used in their book "Democracy and Development".
http://www.ssc.upenn.edu/~cheibub/data/Def...

Conflict Processes Section
From the American Political Science Association. Officers, award winners, data sets, and archived newsletters.
http://www.apsanet.org/~conflict/

Penn World Tables 5.6
Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS), University of Toronto. Economic Resources.
http://datacentre2.chass.utoronto.ca/pwt/

UNHCR: Statistics
Description the status of refugee populations, government policies on refugees, and current UNHCR activities in different countries and continents. Includes yearbook with PDF extracts, reports and charts on asylum trends, and special reports.
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/sta...

International Relations Data Page
Site lists international and domestic resources for data sets. Data subjects range from confliict and cooperation to environmental topics.
http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~phensel/data.h...

Militarized Interstate Disputes
This data set is version 1.1 of Katherine Barbieri's national and dyadic trade data, which covers the period 1870-1992.
http://pss.la.psu.edu/TRD_DATA.htm


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