PSGSA Research Resources
Index
General Resources
Census Data
Civil and Political
Liberties
Constitutions
Debt
Economic
Development and Growth
Education
Electoral Results
and Systems
Americal Electoral
Data
Immigration
Income Distribution
National Statistical
Offices
Political Institutions
Rulers
Trade
Journal Articles
Working Papers
General
Resources
The Harvard-MIT Data Center is the principal distributor
of quantitative social science data at Harvard University, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and the University of Michigan. It maintains
a large library of electronic data from all these sources, a growing collection
of unique data sets, and an extensive codebook library.
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and
Social Research (ICPSR), located within the Institute for Social Research
at the University of Michigan, is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization
serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.
ICPSR provides access to the world's largest archive of computerized social
science data.
This website provides electronic resources for political
scientists in all fields.
Census Data
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Census data and national annual statistics on most
countries is located on 6th floor Bobst where they are on microfiche.
Civil
and Political Liberties
Since 1972, Freedom House has published an annual
assessment of state state of freedom by assigning each country and territory
the status of "Free," "Partly Free," or "Not Free" by averaging their political
rights and civil liberties ratings. This data can be downloaded from this
site.
Constitutions
This site provides the texts of a large selection
of constitutions, both past and present, for around 130 countries.
This index offers constitutions, charters, amendments,
and other related documents. Nations of the world are listed
alphabetically, and each is linked to its constitutional
text posted somewhere on the Internet.
Debt
The HIPC Debt Database is a comprehensive collection
of HIPC debt statistics and CID calculations. The database is an
Excel Workbook which contains nearly fifty worksheets. Each worksheet
presents a specific debt statistic by year (1992-1997, 1998) and HIPC country.
There are several different types of variables on principal, interest,
debt service, and debt transfer.
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World Bank Global Development Finance 2000
CD
Located in Politics Department Data Center.
The CD provides statistical data for 137 countries
reporting debt under the World Bank Debtor Reporting System and summary
data for the country groups. The tables are designed to facilitate cross-country
comparison of key statistics, including summary statistical tables for
income and regional groups. The country tables presents a wealth of information
about each country's external debt. They cover total external debt stocks
and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios. Provided are
data on debt service paid, average terms of new commitments, currency composition
of long-term debt, debt restructuring, and scheduled debt service projections.
Regional and income-group tables are also included in this volume.
Economic
Development and Growth
This page is a resource for anyone studying economic
growth. It contains datasets, working papers, links to other researchers
on growth and to other sites.
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World Bank World Development Indicators CD
(1994, 1997, 1998)
Located in the Politics Department Data Center.
Paul Hensel's homepage provides a number of links
to sites related to economic development.
Education
Barro-Lee dataset provides the estimates for two
different age groups- over age 15 and over age 25- and a breakdown by sex
at five-year intervals for the years 1960-2000. It also includes the number
of years of schooling achieved by the average person at the various levels
and at all levels of schooling combined.
Electoral
Results and Systems
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The International Almanac of Electoral History
(1991). Ed. Thomas Mackie and Richard Rose.
Located on 6th floor Reference of Bobst Library
The almanac provides number of and percentage
of seats and votes for most countries going back to their first elections
until 1991.
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European Journal of Political Research (1991
- present)
Located in Bobst Library
The journal has electoral results since 1991
for most countries.
Usually the most recent election results for national
and some local elections. Also has links to other resources for elections.
More electoral results for various countries and
links to political parties' sites.
Lijphart's election data containing election results
(some at the district level), electoral formulas, and links to related
sites.
American
Electoral Data
Provides party registration figures and other information.
Provides demographic figures.
Provides figures on campaign spending at the national level.
(Note: This page tends to load slowly.)
Gives precinct level voting information.
National Election Surveys
Provides ratings of members of Congress as liberal
or conservative.
General information on American politics
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America at the Polls, 1920-1992. Governmental
Affairs Institute.
Located on 6th floor Reference of Bobst Library.
This book provides American electoral results.
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U.S. Primary Elections, 1990-1998.
Located on 6th floor Reference of Bobst Library.
Immigration
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Trends in International Migration: Continuous
Reporting System on Migration. SOPEMI.
Located on 6th floor Reference of Bobst Library.
This statistical handbook provides information on number
of immigrants, emigrants, and asylum seekers along with countries of origin.
Income Distribution
The Deininger and Squire dataset contains data on
Gini coefficients, cumulative quintile shares, explanations regarding the
basis on which the Gini coefficient was computed, and the source of the
information. There are two data-sets, one containing the "high quality"
sample and the other one including all the information (of lower quality)
that had been collected.
As part of a project analyzing poverty and social
assistance in the transition economies, a Bank research team created a
database of household expenditure and income data from recent surveys -
the HEIDE database. Data are for countries in Eastern Europe and
the former Soviet Union and are in STATA 5.0 format.
The Luxembourg Income Study offers household surveys
conducted in Europe for information on income, employment, and pensions
among other things. Working papers are also available from the site.
What is the relationship between inequality and the
economic success of nations, firms, and local communities? This question
is the central focus of the Network on the Effects of Inequality on Economic
Performance. This site provides selected working papers and a list
of publications related to the topic.
National
Statistical Offices
Provides links to all national statistical offices
where cultural, demographic, economic, and social data can be found.
Political
Institutions
ACLP dataset assembled by Mike Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, Fernando Limongi,
and Adam Przeworski that contains both political and economic data for 135 countries
from 1950 or the year of independence to 1990 or the last year for which economic
growth data is available. The dataset was used in Democracy and Development:
Political Institutions and Material Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2000.
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Political Handbook of the World. Ed.
Arthur Banks.
Located on 6th floor Reference of Bobst Library.
The handbook is an annual reference book containing
separate sections on every country in the world and more than 100 intergovernmental
organizations. Each edition completely updates political developments
over the past year while providing background information to keep the updates
in context.
Rulers
This site contains lists of heads of state and heads
of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders not occupying either
of those formal positions) of all countries and territories, going back
to about 1800.
Trade
Sachs, Jeffrey D. and Andrew M. Warner Trade Openness
Indicators. A data set of 1s and 0s which represent whether
a country has open trade or not (Microsoft Excel).
Paul Hensel's homepage contains a number of links
to sites with trade data.
Journal
Articles
Working
Papers
National Bureau of Economic Research
Princeton Industrial Relations Working Papers
New York University's C.V. Starr Center of Economics
This is the home page of the Society for Political
Methodology , the Political Methodology Section of the American Political
Science Association, and the central web site for the political methodology
community. The primary purpose of this site is to serve as the gateway
to the Electronic Paper Archive. From here you can view abstracts of conference
and working papers online and download papers for local printing.
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