A collection of political datasets. The datasets are listed below within specific categories: cabinets, citizens, constitutions, political institutions, parties and politicians, democracy, economics, elections, international relations, media, policy, political elites. All datasets are listed in the datasets in the repository (.xlsx, .csv, .Rdata, .sav) with detailed information on the topics, coverage and availability of the respective datasets.
name= Name of datasetcategory= Dataset category (cabinets,citizensetc.)link= URL to datasettopics= Specific topics of interest in the datasetcountry= Name of country (for single country datasets)region_africa= Country in African Group (United Nations Regional Groups of Member States)region_asia= Country in Asia-Pacific Group (United Nations Regional Groups of Member States)region_easteurope= Country in Eastern European Group (United Nations Regional Groups of Member States)region_latinamerica= Country in Latin American and Caribbean Group (United Nations Regional Groups of Member States)region_westeurope= Country in Western European and Others Group (United Nations Regional Groups of Member States)year_start= Time coverage, year startyear_end= Time coverage, year endavailability= Availability of datasetregistration= Requirements for data accessfree= Free access to data (1 = Yes, 0 = No)file_codebook= URL to documentation (usually.pdf)file_csv= URL to dataset (.csv)file_dta= URL to dataset (.dta)file_sav= URL to dataset (.sav)file_excel= URL to dataset (Excel)file_r= URL to dataset (.Rdata)file_zip= URL to data package (.zip)variable_country= Name of country string variablevariable_year= Name of year variablevariable_cow= Name of Correlates of War numeric identifier variabledoi_article= DOI for article on datasetdoi_dataset= DOI for datasetrevised= Date for last revision in PolData (ISO 8601, YYYYMMDD)note= Additional info
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- Basic data on parliaments
- Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining
- Coalition Governments in Western Europe
- Dutch Parliamentary Voting Dataset
- European Representative Democracy
- Governments Data, 1950-1995
- ParlGov: Cabinets
- Parliaments and governments database
- Parties in Parliaments and Governments, 1950-1995
- Party Government Data Set
- Portfolio Allocation in Western Europe
- Seki-Williams Governments Dataset
- Seki-Williams Ministers Dataset
- Veto Players Data
- Afrobarometer
- American National Election Studies
- Americas Barometer
- Arab Barometer
- Asian Barometer
- Australian Constitutional Referendum Study
- Australian Election Studies: Voter Studies
- Australian National Political Attitudes Surveys
- Austrian National Election Study
- British Election Study
- British Social Attitudes
- Canadian Election Study
- Caucasus Barometer
- Chinese General Social Survey
- Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
- Cooperative Congressional Election Study
- Danish National Election Study
- Democracy Fund Voter Study Group
- Dutch Parliamentary Electoral Studies
- Election Studies Eastern Europe
- Eurobarometer
- European Election Studies: Voter Study
- European Quality of Life
- European Social Survey
- European Values Study
- General Social Survey
- German General Social Survey
- German Longitudinal Election Study
- Korean General Social Survey
- Icelandic National Election Study
- International Social Survey Programme
- Israel National Election Studies
- Italian National Election Studies
- Latinobarómetro
- Life in Transition Survey
- New Zealand Election Study
- Pew Global Attitudes Survey
- Portuguese Voters Survey
- Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
- Swedish National Election Studies
- Swiss Electoral Studies
- The SOM Institute Cumulative Dataset
- World Values Survey
- American National Election Studies
- American Trends Panel Datasets
- British Household Panel Survey
- Cooperative Congressional Election Study
- Canadian Election Study
- German Longitudinal Election Study
- German Socio-Economic Panel
- Israel National Election Studies
- Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social sciences
- Swiss Household Panel
- Understanding Society
- Median Voter
- Comparative Agendas Project: Public Opinion & Interest Groups
- The 'Most Important Problem' Dataset
- The American Ideology Project
- FiveThirtyEight's Pollster Ratings
- PollBase
- Poll of Polls
- Public support for political parties in Denmark
- SwedishPolls
- The Timeline of Elections
- Comparative Constitutions Project
- Constitutional Court of Turkey Justice Decisions Dataset
- Judicial Checks and Balances
- Religion and State Project Constitutions Dataset
- ACLP Political and Economic Database
- Comparative Political Data Set
- Database of Political Institutions
- Disclosure by Politicians
- Institutional Characteristics of Trade Unions, Wage Setting, State Intervention and Social Pacts
- Institutional Quality Dataset
- Institutions and Elections Project
- Legislative production in the EU, 1967-2012
- Rule of Law Index
- The Political Constraint Index
- Age, gender and profession of parliamentarians
- Chapel Hill Expert Survey
- Comparative Agendas Project
- Comparative Parties Data Set
- EPRG MEP Surveys
- European Election Study: Euromanifesto
- Manifesto Project Main Dataset (Party Preferences)
- Members and Activists of Political Parties
- New Parties and Party System Innovation in Western Europe since 1945
- Norwegian Parliamentary Elections, 1906-2013
- ParlGov: Parties
- Parties, Governments and Legislatures Dataset
- Party Policy in Modern Democracies
- Seats and Votes, 1950-1995
- Women in National Parliaments
- A Lexicial Index of Electoral Democracy
- Authoritarian Regimes Dataset
- Autocratic Regime Data
- Boix-Miller-Rosato (BMR) dichotomous coding of democracy, 1800-2010
- Civil Liberty Dataset
- Democracy/Autocracy Data Set
- Democracy Barometer
- Democracy Crossnational Data
- Democratic Accountability and Citizen-Politician Linkages)
- Democratic Diffusion
- Electoral Systems and the Personal Vote
- Global State of Democracy
- Political Regimes of the World
- Polity IV Project: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions
- Vanhanen's index of democracy
- Varieties of Democracy
- Administrative Capacities
- Corruption Perceptions Index
- Democratic Innovations Data
- European Union Indicators
- Global Integrity Report
- Governance Challenges Indicators
- Ibrahim Index of African Governance
- Infrastructure Governance Indicators
- Quality of Government
- Relative Political Capacity Dataset
- The Worldwide Governance Indicators
- Barro-Ursua Macroeconomic Data
- Chinn-Ito Index
- Economic Freedom of the World
- European Central Bank: Statistical Data Warehouse
- Expanded Trade and GDP Data
- Global State Revenues and Expenditures
- Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database
- Maddison Project Database
- National Accounts Main Aggregates Database
- Total Economy Database
- Union Centralization among Advanced Industrial Societies
- World Economic Outlook
- World Wealth and Income Database
- Constituency-Level Elections Archive
- Democratic Electoral Systems
- Danish General Election Results
- Electoral Volatility and its internal components in Western Europe
- European Election Database
- Free and Fair Elections Database
- Global Elections Database
- National Elections Across Democracy and Autocracy
- ParlGov: Elections
- Perceptions of Electoral Integrity
- US Presidential Elections
- Voter Turnout Database
- AidData
- Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions
- Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project
- Chance-Corrected Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity
- Change in Source of Leader Support
- Conflict Catalog
- Correlates of War
- Counter Trafficking Data Collaborative
- Coups in the World
- Cross-Cutting Cleavage Dataset
- Disaggregated Military Expenditure
- Domestic Terrorist Victims dataset
- Forcibly Displaced Populations
- Fragile States Index
- From Empire to Nation-State
- Genocides and Politicides events
- Girl Child Soldier Dataset
- Global Terrorism Database
- High Casualty Terrorist Bombings
- Ill-Treatment and Torture
- International Military Intervention
- International Political Economy Data Resource
- Konstanz One-Sided Violence Event Dataset
- Latent Human Rights Protection Scores
- Major Episodes of Political Violence
- Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database
- Memberships in Conventional Intergovernmental Organizations
- Militant Group Electoral Participation Dataset
- Militarized Compellent Threats
- Minorities at Risk
- Nonviolent & Violent Campaigns and Outcomes
- Nuclear Production Capabilities Dataset
- Peace Accords Matrix Implementation
- Peacekeeping and the Peacekept
- Police Reforms in Peace Agreements
- Political Terror Scale
- Reputation of Terror Groups
- Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict
- Social Conflict Analysis Database
- State Failure Problem Set
- State Fragility Index
- Suicide Attack Database
- Terrorism in Western Europe: Events Data
- The Affinity of Nations: Similarity of State Voting Positions in the UNGA
- The Cease-Fires Data Set
- The CIRI Human Rights Dataset
- The Continent of International Law
- The Dyadic Cyber Incident and Dispute Data
- The Logic of Political Survival
- Threat and Imposition of Sanctions
- UCDP Peacemakers at Risk
- UN Targeted Sanctions
- United Nations General Assembly Voting Data
- United Nations Security Council membership
- Uppsala Conflict Data Program
- Water-Related Intrastate Conflict and Cooperation
- Women's Participation in NATO Forces and Operations
- Comparative Agendas Project: Media
- European Election Study: Media Study
- Global Media Freedom Dataset
- Political TV Ad Archive
- Wesleyan Media Project: Media Advertising
- World Press Freedom Index
- Abortion Law Database
- Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset
- Comparative Welfare States Data Set
- Correlates of State Policy
- fRDB-IZA Social Reforms Database
- Government Revenue Dataset
- Immigration Policies in Comparison
- Infrastructure Database
- Multiculturalism Policies in Contemporary Democracies
- Social Citizenship Indicator Program
- Social Security Database
- State Policy Innovation and Diffusion
- The Regulation of Labor
- An Automated Database of the European Parliament
- Archigos: A Data Base on Leaders 1875-2004
- Australian Candidate Study
- European Election Study: Elite Study
- EUSpeech
- Leader Experience and Attribute Descriptions
- Portuguese Candidates Survey
- Portuguese MPs Survey
- Decision-making in the European Union
- Environmental Performance Index
- Ethnic Power Relations
- Eurostat
- Extended State History Index
- KOF Globalization Index
- Protest events
- Protest events in the Federal Republic of Germany
- Regional Authority Index
- Religion Adherence Data
- State Antiquity Index
- Annotated Database Bibliography (ADBB) of Datasets on Institutions and Conflict in Divided Societies
- Charles Stewart's Congressional Data Page
- Data Is Plural — Structured Archive (hundreds of datasets, political and non-political)
- Data on EU Legislative Politics
- Data Resources for Studies in Comparative Politics
- Datasets for development economists
- Datasets for empirical development economists
- Economic Data freely available online
- Economic databases
- ERDDA: Comparative links
- European Representative Democracy Data Archive
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
- International IDEA
- Large datasets for social science, genomics and medicine
- MIT Election Data and Science Lab
- Norwegian Centre for Research Data: Data Services
- Open datasets
- Paul Hensel's International Relations Data Site
- Terrorism Events Data: An Inventory of Databases and Data Sets, 1968-2017
- The MacroDataGuide
- Quantitative Methods Initiative Datasets
For help and dataset suggestions, thanks to Daniel Bischof, Jon H. Fiva, Martijn Schoonvelde, Shiro Kuriwaki, Niclas Darville, Alexey Gridnev, Anne-Kathrin Kreft, Feodor Snagovsky, Joe Noonan, Michael Strebel, Felix Haass and Agnar Freyr Helgason.