LibGuides: Social Science Data: Political science

American Political Science Data and Statistics Links

American National Election Studies
Since 1948, ANES has conducted surveys, usually administered as in-person interviews, during most years of national elections. This series of studies, known as the ANES "time series," constitutes a pre-election interview and a post-election interview during years of Presidential elections, and, usually, a post-election interview only during years of midterm elections.
Census Data on Voting and Registration
Information on reported voting and registration by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics is collected for the nation in November of Congressional and Presidential election years in the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a monthly survey of about 50,000 households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The CPS is the primary source of information on the labor force characteristics of the U.S. population.
CQ Voting and Elections Collection
Historic and current data on voting and elections in the U.S. Includes analyses of voting behavior, election processes, and voter demographics.
Federal Election Commission
Detailed data on campaign contributions and expenditures by candidates, parties, and committees.
Govistics
Provides spending, revenue, employment and crime data for state and local governments and school districts across the U.S., pulling together data from different government sources.
Open Secrets/Center for Responsive Politics
Data sets for US politics: campaign finance, lobbying, 527s, and candidate's personal finances.
Policy Agendas Project
The Policy Agendas Project collects and organizes data from various archived sources to trace changes in the national policy agenda and public policy outcomes since the Second World War.
Supreme Court Database
The Supreme Court Database is the definitive source for U.S. Supreme Court data. The Database contains over two hundred pieces of information about each case decided by the Court between the 1946 and 2011 terms.
Vital Statistics of the Presidency: Washington to Clinton
This ebook (MIT use only) is a comprehensive statistical description of the American presidency. Provides key statistical patterns about the presidency with data on presidential selection, public opinion, public appearances, policy decisions, bureaucracy, and the presidential relationship with Congress and the courts.

International Political Science Data and Statistics Links

Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
CSES is a collaborative program of research among election study teams from around the world. Participating countries include a common module of survey questions in their post-election studies. The resulting data are deposited along with voting, demographic, district and macro variables. The studies are then merged into a single, free, public dataset for use in comparative study and cross-level analysis.
Correlates of War
The Correlates of War project seeks to facilitate the collection, dissemination, and use of accurate and reliable quantitative data in international relations.
IDEA (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance)
The most comprehensive global collection of political participation statistics available. The figures for national presidential and parliamentary elections since 1945 are presented by country. Data available on direct democracy, electoral design, turnout, and justice, political finance, voting from abroad, and civic education.
Integrated Network for Societal Conflict Research (INSCR)
INSCR coordinates information resources produced and used by the Center for Systemic Peace, including Polity IV data. Polity IV contains coded annual information on the level of democracy for all independent states with greater than 500,000 total population and covers the years 1800–2011.
Parline Database on National Parliaments
The PARLINE database contains information from the Inter-Parliamentary Union on the structure and working methods of 267 parliamentary chambers in all of the 189 countries where a national legislature exists.
Quality of Government Institute
QoG is an independent research institute within the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg that conducts research on the causes, consequences and nature of Good Governance and the Quality of Government (QoG) in Europe.
World Value Survey
The World Values Survey is a global research project that explores people’s values and beliefs, how they change over time and what social and political impact they have. The WVS is the only source of empirical data on attitudes covering a majority of the world’s population (nearly 90%).
Worldwide Governance Indicators
The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 215 economies over the period 1996–2011, for six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption

Political Science Data and Statistics Books

International

Elections in Africa: a Data Handbook
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JQ1879.A55.E44

Elections in Asia and the Pacific: a Data Handbook
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JQ38.E44 2001

Elections in the Americas: a Data Handbook
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JF1001.E363 2005

Elections in Western Europe Since 1815: Electoral Results by Constituencies
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JN94.A95.C373 2000

International Encyclopedia of Elections
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JF1001.I57 2000
The above set of books provide historical statistics on election results in various regions of the world.

Government Finance Statistics Yearbook
Information on revenue grants, expenditures, and debts for governments worldwide.
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | HJ101.G68 v.1 (1977)

Political Data Handbook : OECD countries

Dewey Library - Reference Collection | HA155.P65 1997

United States

Congressional Roll Call
Record of roll call votes in both chambers of the United States Congress.
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JK1051.C7494
Via ICPSR

Massachusetts Election Statistics

Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JK3192.A3

United States Congressional Elections, 1788-1997: the Official Results of the Elections of the 1st through 105th Congresses
Compiles official election returns for members of Congress.
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JK1967.D77 1998

United States Presidential Primary Elections, 2000-2004 : A Handbook of Election Statistics

Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JK522.C662 2007

Vital Statistics on American Politics
Covers campaign finance, elections, political parties, public opinion and other topics.
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JK274.S74
Dewey Library - Reserve Desk | CDROM JK274.S74

Vital Statistics on the Presidency: Washington to Clinton
Provides an array of data on the presidency.
Dewey Library - Reference Collection | JK518.R34 1998