LibGuides: Data, Mapping and Analysis Tools &amp; Resources: Political Science & Policy Studies

Political Science and Policy Studies - US

Annual Survey of Governments This link opens in a new window
State and local government employment and finance data. Holdings cover 1973-1992. More recent years can be downloaded from the U. S. Census Bureau
Budget of the United States Government This link opens in a new window
Contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year.
Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Election This link opens in a new window
A data repository on Congressional activity that extends the Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME) to cover detailed data on legislative voting, lawmaking, and political rhetoric.
Follow the Money This link opens in a new window
Hosted by the National Institute on Money in State Politics this site trackscontributions to individual candidates and ballot measures in the 50 states. Ballot measures back to 2002 and state profiles of funds raised during election cycles back to 1986.
OpenSecrets Lobbying Database This link opens in a new window
Search by name for a company, lobbying firm or individual lobbyist; search for the total spending by a particular industry; view the interests that lobbied a particular government agency; or search for lobbying on a general issue or specific piece of legislation.
OpenSecrets PAC Funding This link opens in a new window
Search for campaign contributions by PACs and donations to PACs, broken down by sector, industry and unique PAC. Only groups that made contributions during the current or last two election cycles are listed here.
Political Organization Filing and Disclosure This link opens in a new window
On this site, you can electronically file, as well as search for and view, submitted forms (both paper and electronic filingsForm 8871, Political Organization Notice of Section 527 Status and Form 8872, Political Organization Report of Contributions and Expenditures
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive information about staffing, spending, and enforcement activities of the federal government, with special attention to the Dept of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Internal Revenue Service, Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Bureau of Tobacco, Alcohol and Firearms.
US Senate : LDA Reports This link opens in a new window
Query or download the database.
US Senate Lobbying Contributions Database This link opens in a new window
Search using up to five criteria such as the names of registrants, clients, or lobbyists.

American National Election Studies This link opens in a new window
Contains data on voting, public opinion and political participation. Cumulative, time-series, panel and contextual data are available for download.
Center for American Women and Politics: Voters This link opens in a new window
The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is nationally recognized as the leading source of scholarly research and current data about American womens political participation. This site presents data and analysis of women's voting behavior, including statistics on turnout and the gender gap in voting.
Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Election This link opens in a new window
A data repository on Congressional activity that extends the Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections (DIME) to cover detailed data on legislative voting, lawmaking, and political rhetoric.
Election Administration and Voting Survey and Data Sets This link opens in a new window
Data and analyses of US elections, including data on presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial elections, political parties, campaigns, and demographic information.
Federal Election Commission Data Catalog This link opens in a new window
Downloadable campaign finance information
Harvard Election Data Archive This link opens in a new window
A space to share and improve election data. You can create an account and either correct the cataloging information for the studies in this dataverse or upload new data files.
Library of Congress US Election Statistics: A Resource Guide This link opens in a new window
A list of online and print resources that contain U.S. election statistics for both federal and state elections.
National Archives: Historical Election Results This link opens in a new window
The Office of the Federal Register at the National Archives coordinates the functions of the Electoral College on behalf of the Archivist of the United States, the States, and the Congress. This site contains the electoral votes and popular votes from 1789 to the present.
National Black Election Studies This link opens in a new window
The purpose of this data series was to provide large-scale scientific surveys and make possible in-depth investigation of the political attitudes, perceptions, and electoral behaviors of a large, representative national sample of adult Black Americans. The studies permit analyses and change in the Black community on a scale that had not been possible before the series began.
United States Election Project: Voter Turnout This link opens in a new window
Dr. Michael McDonald, an Associate Professor at George Mason University, provides national and state voter turnout statistics from 1980 to the present.

Annual Survey of Governments This link opens in a new window
State and local government employment and finance data. Holdings cover 1973-1992. More recent years can be downloaded from the U. S. Census Bureau
Data.gov This link opens in a new window
This is the government's portal to all statistics and data collected by U.S. Government agencies. It is a little cluttered and tricky to use, BUT if you use the filter options at the left on the Raw Data page, you will have an easier time navigating to what you need.
GovTrack.us API This link opens in a new window
GovTrack.us began in 2004 as a project to use technology to make the U.S. Congress more open and accessible. Today were the leading non-governmental source of legislative information and statistics.
Library of Congress Digital Collections This link opens in a new window
Digitized historical materials from the Library of Congress - includes many images.
Linked Open Government Data This link opens in a new window
International Open Government Dataset Search (IOGDS) is a demo linked data application based on metadata "scraped" from hundreds of international dataset catalog websites publishing a rich variety of government data.
Politwoops This link opens in a new window
Tracks deleted tweets by U.S. public officials, including people currently in office and candidates for office.
Quality of Governement Institute - QoG Datasets This link opens in a new window
The flagship datasest is the QoG Standard Dataset, which is available in both cross-section and time-series. The QoG Basic Dataset is easier to use, offering the most used and the most qualitative variables in terms of data from the QoG Standard Dataset. The QoG OECD covers countries who are members of the OECD. The EU Regional Data consists of approximately 450 variables from Eurostat and other sources. The QoG Expert Survey is a dataset based on our survey of experts on public administration around the world.
Sunlight Congress API This link opens in a new window
A live JSON API for the people and work of Congress, provided by theSunlight Foundation.
United States Congressional Biographical Data This link opens in a new window
The data provide information on congressional service and selected biographical characteristics for each person who had served in the United States Congress in the period 1789-1996.
US Congress- Bulk Data Download This link opens in a new window
Public domain data collectors for the work of Congress, including legislation, amendments, and votes. (Knowledge of Python needed)
YouGov This link opens in a new window
YouGov is an international research data and analytics group headquartered in London. Our data-led offering supports and improves a wide spectrum of marketing activities of a customer-base including media owners, brands and media agencies. We work with some of the world’s most recognised brands.

American Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy Series This link opens in a new window
This series of quadrennial studies was designed to investigate the opinions and attitudes of the general public and a select group of opinion leaders on matters relating to United States foreign policy and to define the parameters of public opinion within which decision-makers must operate. Data covers 1975-2004.
Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive This link opens in a new window
CPANDA is the world's first interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States.
Joint Center for Politcial and Economic Studies This link opens in a new window
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, along with our experts, fellows and partners, regularly publishes numerous reports, studies, and fact sheets about issues affecting communities of color.
Political Events Project: 1948-1965 This link opens in a new window
Contains data on 6,754 political instability events in 84 selected nations in the period 1948-1965. The variables in the dataset are divided into four basic types: variables that identify events, classify events, describe events, and evaluate events.

Political Science and Policy Studies - International

OpenSpending This link opens in a new window
OpenSpending is a central, high quality database of public financial information (budgets, balance sheets, etc) from governmental entities across the globe.
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe This link opens in a new window
Provides international labor force and wage information and other economic statistics (1990-present).

British Election Study at the University of Essex This link opens in a new window
InnovativeData Playground will allow you to look at BES data and create your own charts. Here you will find all British Election Study data released by the current BES team, as well as historical BES data collected in elections between 1964 and 2010. New data are listed first. This provides a one-stop-shop comprehensive list of BES data.
British General Election Studies This link opens in a new window
Rrepresentative probability sample surveys in the country designed to explore the changing determinants of electoral behavior in contemporary Britain. The link above is to the surveys from 1969 through 1997. ICPSR also holds the earlier surveys starting in 1963.
Canadian National Election Study Series This link opens in a new window
Canadian National Election Surveys for 1965, 1968, 1972, 1974, 1984, 1988, 1993, 1997, 2000. Also includes the 1974-1979-1980 Quebec Referendum Panel Study and the 1992 Referendum Survey on the Charlottetown Accord.
CEPPS Elections Guide This link opens in a new window
Information on international elections: Subnational elections of high interest; Political parties and candidates; Referendum provisions; News on election-related laws and developments around the world; Political institutions and electoral systems; Election results and voter turnout.
Constituency-Level Elections Archive This link opens in a new window
Contains approximately 1100 elections from 70+ countries at a constituency level for lower house legislative elections. Includes votes received by each candidate/party, total votes cast, number of eligible voters, and seat figures where available. Available in Stata, SPSS, and raw data formats. Dates are variable, but generally 1945+
German Election Studies This link opens in a new window
In federal election years, the German Politbarometer is considered part of the German Election Study. However, in some election years when funding is not awarded, election studies are not carried out. 1969+
Global Elections Database This link opens in a new window
Build data sets on national and subnational elections around the world 1940s-2010s. Accessible in multiple formats: spreadsheets, tables and GIS maps.
ICPSR Data Archive This link opens in a new window
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. World's largest archive of social science data. Election data, opinion polls, more. Special collections on Health, Education, Aging, Crime, Substance Abuse. Raw data; no tables.

CEPPS Elections Guide This link opens in a new window
Information on international elections: Subnational elections of high interest; Political parties and candidates; Referendum provisions; News on election-related laws and developments around the world; Political institutions and electoral systems; Election results and voter turnout.
Comparative Agendas Projects This link opens in a new window
The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) assembles and codes information on the policy processes of governments from around the world.
EUROSTAT This link opens in a new window
Eurostat produces European statistics in partnership with National Statistical Institutes and other national authorities in the EU Member States.
Guardian Data Store This link opens in a new window
Access datasets used by the UK publisher in areas of government, education, population, and culture. (scroll to mid-page to see data links)
Indian Government Open Data This link opens in a new window
NDSAP aims to provide an enabling provision and platform for proactive and open access to the data generated by various Government of India entities.
New Zealand's Government Dataset This link opens in a new window
Data.govt.nz helps people discover, learn and use open data easily; empowering, enabling informed decision making, and problem-solving for citizens and business alike.
Quality of Governement Institute - QoG Datasets This link opens in a new window
The flagship datasest is the QoG Standard Dataset, which is available in both cross-section and time-series. The QoG Basic Dataset is easier to use, offering the most used and the most qualitative variables in terms of data from the QoG Standard Dataset. The QoG OECD covers countries who are members of the OECD. The EU Regional Data consists of approximately 450 variables from Eurostat and other sources. The QoG Expert Survey is a dataset based on our survey of experts on public administration around the world.
Transparency International Research This link opens in a new window
Conducts rigorous and independent assessments of corruption around the world. At the global level, we produce comparative data measuring the prevalence of corruption, citizens experiences and attitudes towards it. We also explore how corruption spreads across borders and in different sectors of the economy. At the national, local and even sector level we investigate the specific manifestation of corruption, its causes, its consequences and what works to reduce it.
YouGov This link opens in a new window
YouGov is an international research data and analytics group headquartered in London. Our data-led offering supports and improves a wide spectrum of marketing activities of a customer-base including media owners, brands and media agencies. We work with some of the world’s most recognised brands.

Eurobarometer Survey Series: 1970+ This link opens in a new window
Large set of surveys measuring public opinion in the countries of the European Union, on a wide variety of topics.
Guardian Data Store This link opens in a new window
Access datasets used by the UK publisher in areas of government, education, population, and culture. (scroll to mid-page to see data links)
ICPSR Data Archive This link opens in a new window
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. World's largest archive of social science data. Election data, opinion polls, more. Special collections on Health, Education, Aging, Crime, Substance Abuse. Raw data; no tables.
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series This link opens in a new window
IPUMS-International is dedicated to collecting and distributing census microdata from around the world. The project goals are to collect and preserve data and documentation, harmonize data, and disseminate the harmonized data free of charge.
Our World in Data This link opens in a new window
On the closely integrated website SDG-Tracker.org we present the data and research on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2015, all countries in the world signed up to reach the SDGs by 2030 and we built this site to track progress towards them. Our SDG-Tracker is a widely accessed publication that presents all the latest available data on the 232 SDG-Indicators with which the 17 Goals are assessed.
The World Factbook This link opens in a new window
The World Factbook, produced for US policymakers and coordinated throughout the US Intelligence Community,

Military/Conflict - US & International

Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) This link opens in a new window
The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project. ACLED collects the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events across Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Southeastern and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. The ACLED team conducts analysis to describe, explore, and test conflict scenarios, and makes both data and analysis open for free use by the public.
Correlates of War This link opens in a new window
The Correlates of War project collects and disseminates quantitative data in international relations. Datasets include: COW Country Codes; State System Membership; COW War Data; Militarized Interstate Disputes; Militarized Interstate Dispute Locations; National Material Capabilities; World Religion Data; Formal Alliances; Territorial Change; Direct Contiguity; Colonial/Dependency Contiguity; Intergovernmental Organizations; Diplomatic Exchange; Trade.
Defense Management Data Center This link opens in a new window
Military and civilian defense personnel and casualty statistics.
DoD Personnel and Military Casualty Statistics This link opens in a new window
Military casualty data and Active Duty military/civilian personnel statistics by rank/grade, service totals, service by Region/Country.
Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research (INSCR) This link opens in a new window
The Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research (INSCR)was established to coordinate and integrate information resources produced and used by the Center for Systemic Peace. The following data resources were prepared by researchers associated with the Center for Systemic Peace and are generated and/or compiled using open source information.
Our World in Data This link opens in a new window
On the closely integrated website SDG-Tracker.org we present the data and research on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2015, all countries in the world signed up to reach the SDGs by 2030 and we built this site to track progress towards them. Our SDG-Tracker is a widely accessed publication that presents all the latest available data on the 232 SDG-Indicators with which the 17 Goals are assessed.
Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) This link opens in a new window
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) conducts research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, groups and people.
SIPRI Databases This link opens in a new window
Facts on international relations and security trends
Status of World Nuclear Forces This link opens in a new window