A dataset with political datasets
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, political speeches and debates. All datasets are listed in the datasets in the repository (.xlsx
, .csv
) with detailed information on the topics, coverage and availability of the respective datasets.
name
= Name of datasetcategory
= Dataset category (cabinets
, citizens
etc.)link
= URL to datasettopics
= Specific topics of interest in the datasetcountry
= Name of country (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2)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 accesslicense
= License (identifiers from SPDX License List)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 compressed dataset (.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 related publicationdoi_dataset
= DOI for datasetrevised
= Date for last revision in PolData (ISO 8601, YYYYMMDD)Make a new issue in the repository or send me a mail at [email protected]
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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, Simon Straubinger, Bjørn Høyland and Agnar Freyr Helgason. Several of the datasets added to the list over the years are found via the great newsletter Data Is Plural by Jeremy Singer-Vine.