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| Name | Category | Topics | Country | Year Start | Year End | Link | Availability | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3P Anti-trafficking Policy Index | policy | anti-trafficking, prosecution, protection, prevention | 2000 | 2012 | https://www.awi.uni-heidelberg.de/professuren/intwipol/datasets_en.html | online | ||
| A Comprehensive Dataset of U.S. Federal Laws | policy | federal laws | US | 1789 | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/MRGHC | online | CC-BY-4.0 |
| A Lexicial Index of Electoral Democracy | democracy | political regimes, democratization, regime change, democracy index | 1800 | 2015 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/29106 | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| A millennium of macroeconomic data | economics | macroeconomics, finance | GB | 1086 | 2016 | https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/research-datasets | online | |
| Abortion Law Database | policy | abortion, criteria | 1960 | 2006 | https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/david-canning/data-sets/ | online | ||
| Administrative Capacities | governance | crime control, education provision, civil justice provision, revenue collection capacity, legitimacy and effectiveness, regulatory capacity and quality, coordination capacity, self-monitoring | 2014 | 2014 | https://www.hertie-school.org/en/governancereport/govreport-indicators/ | online | ||
| African Elections Database | elections | elections | 1910 | 2012 | https://africanelections.tripod.com/ | online | ||
| African Relational Pro-Government Militia Dataset | international relations | ethnic conflict, militia, civil war, conflict | 1997 | 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2018.1458724 | online | ||
| Afrobarometer | citizens | conflict and crime, democracy, elections, gender equality, governance, identity, macroeconomics and markets, political participation, poverty, public services, social capital, tolerance, citizenship,… | 1999 | 2016 | http://www.afrobarometer.org/ | online | ||
| AfroGrid | international relations | conflict, environmental stress | 1989 | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LDI5TK | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Age, gender and profession of parliamentarians | parties and politicians | Chamber, gender, age, profession | 2012 | 2012 | http://archive.ipu.org/gpr-e/downloads/index.htm | online | ||
| AGORA | policy | AI governance, regulatory archive, governance | 2016 | 2025 | https://agora.eto.tech/ | online | CC-BY-4.0 | |
| Aid Worker Security Database | international relations | aid workers, attacks, staff | 1997 | 2021 | https://aidworkersecurity.org/incidents | online | ||
| AidData | international relations | foreign aid, development finance, aid effectiveness, aid transparency, aid allocation | 1947 | 2013 | http://aiddata.org/data/aiddata-core-research-release-level-1-v3-0 | online | ||
| Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions | international relations | alliance, treaty, obligations, international security, international cooperation | 1815 | 2003 | http://atop.rice.edu/data | online | ||
| American Local Government Elections Database | elections | local politics, urban politics, representation | US | 1989 | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02792-x | online | CC-BY-4.0 |
| American National Election Studies | citizens | Political attitudes, voting behavior, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | US | 1948 | 2016 | http://www.electionstudies.org/ | online | |
| American Trends Panel Datasets | citizens | political knowledge, immigration, personality politics, media consumption, guns | US | 2014 | 2017 | http://www.pewresearch.org/american-trends-panel-datasets/ | online | |
| Americas Barometer | citizens | Political attitudes, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | 2004 | 2017 | http://www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/about-americasbarometer.php | online | ||
| An Automated Database of the European Parliament | political elites | European Parliament, MEP | 1979 | 2018 | https://nabu.usit.uio.no/sv/isv/ | online | ||
| Anatomy of Resistance Campaigns | international relations | civil war, dissent, networks, organizations, protest | 1990 | 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00223433211029512 | online | ||
| Annotated Spanish general election debate transcriptions | political speeches and debates | political activity, electoral campaigns | ES | 1993 | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28797572 | online | CC0-1.0 |
| Anti-Refugee Violence and Social Unrest in Germany | other | right-wing extremist violence, georeferenced event data, refugees | DE | 2014 | 2015 | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2053168016679590 | online | |
| Aqueduct | environment | aqueduct, water, water quality, water stress | 2019 | 2019 | https://www.wri.org/resources/data-sets/aqueduct-30-country-rankings | online | ||
| Arab Barometer | citizens | Political attitudes, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | 2006 | 2019 | http://arabbarometer.org/ | online | ||
| Archigos: A Data Base on Leaders 1875-2004 | political elites | political leaders, leader characteristics | 1875 | 2015 | http://www.rochester.edu/college/faculty/hgoemans/data.htm | online | ||
| Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project | international relations | conflict, protest | 1997 | 2022 | https://acleddata.com/data-export-tool/ | online | ||
| Armed Group Dataset | international relations | armed groups | 1970 | 2012 | https://armedgroupdataset.org/ | online | ||
| Asian Barometer | citizens | economic evaluations, trust in institutions, social capital, political participation, access to public service, internet and social media, partisanship | 2001 | 2021 | http://www.asianbarometer.org/ | online | ||
| Australian Candidate Study | political elites | political attitudes | AU | 1987 | 2019 | https://australianelectionstudy.org/candidate-studies/ | online | |
| Australian Constitutional Referendum Study | citizens | political attitudes | AU | 1999 | 1999 | https://australianelectionstudy.org/acrs/ | online | |
| Australian Election Studies: Voter Studies | citizens | political attitudes | AU | 1987 | 2019 | https://australianelectionstudy.org/voter-studies/ | online | |
| Australian National Political Attitudes Surveys | citizens | political attitudes | AU | 1967 | 1979 | https://australianelectionstudy.org/anpas-studies/ | online | |
| Australian Parliamentary Debates | political speeches and debates | parliamentary debates | AU | 1998 | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7336075 | online | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Austrian National Election Study | citizens | political attitudes | AT | 2002 | 2019 | http://www.autnes.at/en/data-download/ | online | |
| Authoritarian Regimes Dataset | democracy | regime, military, monarchy | 1972 | 2014 | https://sites.google.com/site/authoritarianregimedataset/data | online | ||
| Authoritarian Ruling Elites Database | international relations | elites, authoritarian, dictatorship | 1922 | 2020 | https://sites.google.com/view/austinsmatthews/data-projects | online | ||
| Autocracies of the World | democracy | monarchy, military, single party, multiparty, democracy | 1950 | 2012 | https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/research/autocracies_of_the_world_dataset | online | ||
| Autocratic Regime Data | democracy | autocratic regimes, failures, non-democracy | 1946 | 2010 | http://sites.psu.edu/dictators/ | online | ||
| Autocratic Ruling Parties Dataset | parties and politicians | democratization, autocracy, political parties, autocratic institutions | 1940 | 2015 | https://sites.google.com/site/mkmtwo/data | online | ||
| Bank for International Settlements | economics | debt securities, credit, global liquidity, exchange rates, property prices, payments and financial market infrastructures | 1661 | 2020 | https://www.bis.org/statistics/full_data_sets.htm | online | ||
| Barro-Ursua Macroeconomic Data | economics | macro economic, gdp | 1790 | 2009 | https://scholar.harvard.edu/barro/publications/barro-ursua-macroeconomic-data | online | ||
| Basic data on parliaments | cabinets and parliaments | MPs, parliament, chamber, budget, salary, staff | 2012 | 2012 | http://archive.ipu.org/gpr-e/downloads/index.htm | online | ||
| Belgium General Election Study | citizens | BE | 1991 | 2007 | https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:65023 | online | ||
| Berlin Infringement Database | political institutions | EU Integration, Noncompliance, European Commission, European Court of Justice | 1978 | 2019 | https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/polwiss/forschung/international/europa/bid | online | ||
| Bilateral Labor Agreements Dataset | policy | international law, treaties, migration | 1945 | 2015 | https://www.law.uchicago.edu/bilateral-labor-agreements-dataset | online | ||
| Boix-Miller-Rosato (BMR) dichotomous coding of democracy | democracy | democracy, democratization, elections, participation, competitiveness, development | 1800 | 2020 | https://sites.google.com/site/mkmtwo/data | online | ||
| Border Crossings of the World Dataset | international relations | borders | 1993 | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433221145582 | online | ||
| British Election Study | citizens | political attitudes, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | GB | 1964 | 2022 | http://www.britishelectionstudy.com/ | online | |
| British Household Panel Survey | citizens | political attitudes | GB | 1991 | 2009 | https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/bhps | online | |
| British Social Attitudes | citizens | political attitudes, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | GB | 1983 | 2020 | http://www.natcen.ac.uk/our-research/research/british-social-attitudes/ | online | |
| Bundestag Roll Call Vote Data | parties and politicians | roll-call voting, legislative behavior, members of parliament | DE | 1949 | 2013 | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/btvote | online | |
| BuzzFeed News “Trending” Strip | media | journalism, trending, issues | US | 2018 | 2023 | https://github.com/jsvine/buzzfeed-news-trending-strip/ | online | |
| Campaign Finance Law Across the Nation | other | state campaigns, finance laws | US | 1996 | 2018 | http://cfinst.org/State/LawsDatabase_Download.aspx | online | |
| CampaignView | parties and politicians | political communication, congressional campaigns, campaign websites | US | 2018 | 2022 | https://www.campaignview.org/download | online | CC0-1.0 |
| Canadian Election Study | citizens | political attitudes | CA | 2004 | 2015 | http://ces-eec.arts.ubc.ca/english-section/surveys/ | online | |
| Canadian Federal and Ontario Provincial Candidates | parties and politicians | elections, vote shares | CA | 1867 | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ABFNSQ | online | |
| Canadian Government Expenditures | policy | public expenditures, defense, education, environment, health, transportation and welfare | CA | 1980 | 2004 | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/XDZ4A6 | online | |
| Candidates in American General Elections | parties and politicians | president, house, senate, governor | US | 2006 | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DGDRDT | online | |
| Career Moves of Former Danish Ministers and Permanent Secretaries | political elites | career moves, ministers, private sector | DK | 2009 | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OYW9GF | online | |
| Cast vote records | elections | cast vote records, President, Governor, Senate, voting behavior, election administration | US | 2020 | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-04017-1 | online | CC0-1.0 |
| Caucasus Barometer | citizens | political attitudes | 2008 | 2022 | http://caucasusbarometer.org/en/datasets/ | online | ||
| Central Bank Governors | economics | central bank | 1970 | 2018 | https://kof.ethz.ch/en/data/data-on-central-bank-governors.html | online | ||
| Certificates of Competency for Nominees to be Chiefs of Mission | international relations | ambassadorial nominees, qualifications | US | 1981 | 2018 | https://ryanscoville.com/2019/02/13/certificates-of-competency-for-nominees-to-be-chiefs-of-mission-1980-2014/ | online | |
| Chance-Corrected Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity | international relations | foreign policy, similarity, affinity | 1816 | 2015 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ALVXLM | online | ||
| Change in Source of Leader Support | international relations | leader transitions | 1919 | 2018 | http://www.chisols.org/ | online | ||
| Chapel Hill Expert Survey | parties and politicians | party positions, European integration, ideology | 1999 | 2020 | https://www.chesdata.eu/ | online | ||
| Chilean Ministers | cabinets and parliaments | cabinet members | CL | 1990 | 2014 | https://github.com/bgonzalezbustamante/chilean-ministers | online | |
| Chilean Undersecretaries | cabinets and parliaments | cabinet members | CL | 1990 | 2022 | https://github.com/bgonzalezbustamante/chilean-undersecretaries | online | |
| China Visits | international relations | leader visits | 1998 | 2020 | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11558-022-09459-z#Sec23 | online | ||
| Chinese Economic Sanctions Dataset | international relations | economic sanctions | 1949 | 2020 | https://sites.google.com/view/jackzhang/twl/data | online | ||
| Chinese General Social Survey | citizens | political attitudes | CN | 2003 | 2013 | http://www.chinagss.org/index.php?r=index/index&hl=en | online | |
| Chinn-Ito Index | economics | financial development, capital controls, financial liberalization, openness | 1970 | 2015 | http://web.pdx.edu/~ito/Chinn-Ito_website.htm | online | ||
| CIRIGHTS | international relations | human rights, rights, represion, labor rights, children's rights, women's rights, civil rights, empowerment rights | 1981 | 2021 | https://cirights.com/ | online | ||
| Citizenship Regime Inclusiveness Index | policy | immigration policies, citizenship policies, policy trends | 1980 | 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-020-00182-5 | online | ||
| Citizenship Regime Inclusiveness Index 2.0 | policy | immigration, citizenship policy, policy trends, integration | 1980 | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XHZV8V | online | ||
| Civil Liberty Dataset | democracy | civil liberties, developments, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of movement | 1975 | 2020 | http://ps.au.dk/forskning/forskningsprojekter/dedere/datasets/ | online | ||
| Climate Action Tracker | environment | climate action, emissions, global warming, decarbonisation, agriculture, waste, electricity | 1990 | 2019 | https://climateactiontracker.org/data-portal/ | online | ||
| Climate change in the contiguous United States | environment | temperatures | US | 1895 | 2019 | https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-2C-beyond-the-limit-usa/ | online | |
| Climate Policy Database | environment | energy, energy efficiency, renewables, nuclear | 1894 | 2020 | http://climatepolicydatabase.org/index.php/Download_policies | online | ||
| CMP Government Positions Data | parties and politicians | policy position, EU integration, left-right, economy | 1993 | 2018 | https://wratil.eu/data/ | online | ||
| Coalition Governance in Central Eastern Europe | cabinets and parliaments | coalition governance | 1990 | 2018 | https://erdda.org/gie/ | online | ||
| Coalition Inclusion Probabilities Dataset | parties and politicians | coalition bargaining, coalition leverage, policy-making, representation | 1946 | 2020 | https://coalition-leverage.org/cip-data/ | online | ||
| Cohort Fertility and Education Database | other | cohort fertility, education, completed fertility rate | http://www.cfe-database.org/database/ | online | ||||
| Colonial Dates Dataset | international relations | colonialism, empire, development, world politics | 1462 | 1984 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/T9SDEW | online | ||
| Colpus Regime Data | international relations | coups, regimes | 1946 | 2022 | https://www.johnjchin.com/colpus | online | ||
| Commercial Military Actor Database | international relations | civil war, private military and security companies, mercenaries, market for force | 1980 | 2016 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TOFZ09 | online | ||
| Commissioners of the European Union | parties and politicians | appointment, delegation, European Commission | 1958 | 2014 | http://holgerdoering.net/data.html | online | ||
| Comparative Agendas Project | parties and politicians | bills, debates, motions, laws | 1911 | 2021 | http://www.comparativeagendas.net/datasets_codebooks | online | ||
| Comparative Agendas Project: Media | media | newspaper, media | 1946 | 2015 | http://www.comparativeagendas.net/datasets_codebooks | online | ||
| Comparative Agendas Project: Public Opinion & Interest Groups | citizens | policy mood, most important problem, most important issue | 1848 | 2020 | http://www.comparativeagendas.net/datasets_codebooks | online | ||
| Comparative Candidates Survey | political elites | 2015 | 2016 | http://www.comparativecandidates.org/data-access | online | |||
| Comparative Constitutions Project | constitutions | national constitutions, constitutional events | 1789 | 2019 | http://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/download-data/ | online | ||
| Comparative dataset on socio-cultural, political and legal indicators | other | trade unions, participation, well-being, migration, governments, democracy | 2010 | 2017 | https://www.sirius-project.eu/news/comparative-dataset-socio-cultural-political-and-legal-indicators | online | ||
| Comparative Death Penalty Database | policy | death penalty | 1800 | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LI3WYK | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Comparative Income Taxation Database | economics | taxation | 1800 | 2010 | https://data.stanford.edu/comparative-income-taxation-database-citd | online | ||
| Comparative Independent Fiscal Institutions | economics | fiscal institutions, political independence, transparency | 1963 | 2018 | https://fiscal-institutions.github.io/ | online | ||
| Comparative National Elections Project | citizens | elections, government, economy | 1990 | 2020 | https://u.osu.edu/cnep/ | online | ||
| Comparative Political Data Set | political institutions | government, elections, party system, institutions, economy, labour force, policy, demography | 1960 | 2021 | http://www.cpds-data.org/ | online | ||
| Comparative Study of Electoral Systems | citizens | 1996 | 2016 | http://www.cses.org/ | online | |||
| Comparative Voter ID Law Index | political institutions | election integrity, voting, voter ID | 1918 | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RU2F9A | online | ||
| Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset | policy | welfare policy, social insurance, unemployment, pension | 1970 | 2011 | http://cwed2.org/download.php | online | ||
| Comparative Welfare States Data Set | policy | wage, salary, social spending, macroeconomy | 1960 | 2018 | http://www.lisdatacenter.org/resources/other-databases/ | online | ||
| Comprehensive European Parliament Electoral Data | elections | European Parliament, European Union institutions, electoral systems, candidate selection | 1999 | 2014 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GNRMTO | online | ||
| Conflict Catalog | international relations | conflict, fatalities | 1400 | 2000 | http://www.cgeh.nl/data#conflict | online | ||
| Congress slaveowners | parties and politicians | congress, slaves, slaveholder | US | 1789 | 1972 | https://github.com/washingtonpost/data-congress-slaveowners/ | online | |
| CongressData | parties and politicians | congress, congressional districts | US | 1789 | 2024 | https://cspp.ippsr.msu.edu/congress/ | online | |
| Congressional Scandals | parties and politicians | scandal, elections, donors, media coverage, Congress | US | 1979 | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BID3QM | online | |
| Congressional Whip Count Database | political institutions | whip count | US | 1955 | 1986 | https://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/clevan/congressionalwhipcountdatabase | online | |
| Constituency-Level Elections Archive | elections | elections, seats, turnout | 1788 | 2017 | http://www.electiondataarchive.org/ | online | ||
| Constitutional Court of Turkey Justice Decisions Dataset | constitutions | party dissolution, anti-establishment parties, judicialization, representation | TR | 1983 | 2011 | http://www.efetokdemir.com/data.html | online | |
| Contemporary Slavery in Armed Conflict | international relations | armed conflict, child soldiers, contemporary slavery, enslavement, forced labor, forced marriage, human trafficking, modern slavery | 1989 | 2016 | https://www.csac.org.uk/dataset/ | online | ||
| Cooperative Congressional Election Study | citizens | Political attitudes, voting behavior, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | US | 2006 | 2018 | https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/ | online | |
| Corpus of Resolutions: UN Security Council | international relations | United Nations, peace, security, disarmament, terrorism, resolution, war, armed conflict | 1946 | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11212056 | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Correlates of State Policy | policy | criminal justice, demographics, alcohol, economy, elections, education, environment, healthcare, gun control, ideology, welfare, transportation | US | 1900 | 2019 | http://ippsr.msu.edu/public-policy/correlates-state-policy | online | |
| Correlates of War | international relations | 1816 | 2007 | http://www.correlatesofwar.org/ | online | |||
| Corruption Perceptions Index | governance | corruption | 1995 | 2021 | https://www.transparency.org/research/cpi/ | online | ||
| Counter Trafficking Data Collaborative | international relations | human trafficking, victims | 2002 | 2019 | https://www.ctdatacollaborative.org/global-dataset-0 | online | ||
| Countries' Agri-Environmental Policies Database | policy | sustainable agriculture, land use, ecosystem conservation, pesticides, fertilizer, forests, soils, biodiversity, payment schemes, legislation, regulations, laws | 1960 | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10421761 | online | CC-BY-4.0 | |
| Coup D'état Project | international relations | coup d'état, event data | 1945 | 2019 | https://clinecenter.illinois.edu/project/research-themes/democracy-and-development/coup-detat-project-cdp | online | ||
| Coups in the World | international relations | civil wars, coup d’état | 1950 | 2010 | http://www.jonathanmpowell.com/coup-detat-dataset.html | online | ||
| Court of Justice of the European Union Database | political institutions | judicial behavior, judicial independence, international courts | 1952 | 2022 | https://www.iuropa.pol.gu.se/cjeu-database/cjeu-database-platform | online | ||
| COVID-19 Economic Stimulus Index | economics | COVID-19, fiscal policy, monetary policy, balance of payments, pandemic | 2020 | 2020 | http://web.boun.edu.tr/elgin/COVID.htm | online | ||
| COVID-19 vaccine policies | policy | government policy, coronavirus, stringency | 2020 | 2023 | https://github.com/OxCGRT/covid-policy-tracker | online | ||
| Cross-Cutting Cleavage Dataset | international relations | ethnic diversity, crosscutting cleavages, economic growth, social structure, ethnic fractionalization | 2014 | 2014 | https://sites.google.com/site/joelsawatselway/CROSS-CUTTING-CLEAVAGES-DATA | online | ||
| Crowd Counting Consortium Dataset | protest | protest, riots, strikes, nonviolent action | US | 2017 | 2022 | https://github.com/nonviolent-action-lab/crowd-counting-consortium | online | |
| Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship | citizens | labour and employment, demography and population, education, society and culture, health, politics, psychology, social welfare policy and systems, social stratification and groupings, economics | 2016 | 2016 | https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13042 | online | ||
| Culture of cooperation and inclusive political institutions | economics | culture of cooperation, inclusive political institutions | 1000 | 1600 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104731 | online | ||
| Danish General Election Results | elections | parliament | DK | 1953 | 2019 | https://github.com/Straubinger/folketingsvalg | online | |
| Danish Legislative Speech Corpus | political speeches and debates | legislative speech | DK | 1997 | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PNCBKF | online | CC0-1.0 |
| Danish Legislator Database | parties and politicians | parliaments, legislators, historical data, political elites | DK | 1849 | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4SFNC0 | online | |
| Danish National Election Study | citizens | political attitudes, voting behavior, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | DK | 1971 | 2019 | https://www.sa.dk/da/forskning-rigsarkivet/benyt-surveydata/valgundersoegelsen/ | online | |
| Data on washingtonpost.com alerts | media | notifications, journalism | 2024 | 2024 | https://github.com/dwillis/wapo-alerts | online | ||
| Database of Masculine and Feminine Words | other | gender, language, politics, Republicans, Democrats | 2018 | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1065912919874883 | online | ||
| Database of Political Institutions | political institutions | political system, legislature, vote threshold, representation | 1975 | 2020 | https://www.iadb.org/en/research-and-data/dpi2020 | online | ||
| Database of Sub-national Economic Output | economics | economic development, inequality, economic growth | 1953 | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02323-8 | online | CC-BY-4.0 | |
| Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections | elections | campaign finance records, election outcomes | US | 1979 | 2020 | https://data.stanford.edu/dime | online | |
| Database on Suicide Attacks | international relations | suicide attacks, victims, campaign, weapon, target type | 1974 | 2019 | https://cpost.uchicago.edu/research/suicide_attacks/database_on_suicide_attacks/ | online | ||
| De Facto States in International Politics | international relations | civil war, conflict, failed states, peace, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, security | 1949 | 2011 | https://doi.org/10.1080/03050629.2014.915543 | online | ||
| Deadly Electoral Conflict Dataset | international relations | electoral violence, civil war, event data, elections | 1989 | 2017 | https://ucdp.uu.se/downloads/index.html#deco | online | ||
| Debates in the Council of the European Union | political speeches and debates | council, European Union | 2010 | 2015 | https://wratil.eu/projects | online | ||
| Democracy Barometer | democracy | democracy, freedom, control, equality | 1990 | 2017 | https://democracybarometer.org/data-and-documentation/ | online | ||
| Democracy Cross-National Data | democracy | democracy, governance, media, human rights | 1994 | 2020 | https://www.pippanorris.com/data | online | ||
| Democracy Fund Voter Study Group | citizens | political attitudes, voting behavior, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | US | 2016 | 2017 | https://www.voterstudygroup.org/data | online | |
| Democracy/Autocracy Data Set | democracy | democracy, autocracy, regime type | 1954 | 2010 | https://hdl.handle.net/1902.1/18836 | online | ||
| Democratic Accountability and Citizen-Politician Linkages | democracy | democracy, party policy | 2008 | 2009 | https://sites.duke.edu/democracylinkage/data/ | online | ||
| Democratic Diffusion | democracy | democracy, diffusion, democratization, regime | 1973 | 1996 | https://www3.nd.edu/~mcoppedg/crd/datacrd.htm | online | ||
| Democratic Electoral Systems | elections | electoral systems, party systems | 1945 | 2021 | http://mattgolder.com/elections | online | ||
| Design of Trade Agreements Database | economics | trade, trade agreement, investment, markets, competition | 1948 | 2018 | https://www.designoftradeagreements.org/downloads/ | online | ||
| Disaggregated defense spending | international relations | equipment spending, personnel spending, operating spending, infrastructure spending | 1971 | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433231215785 | online | ||
| Disaggregated Military Expenditure | international relations | military defense, peacetime, rivalry, civil wars, military alliances | 1950 | 1997 | http://pages.ucsd.edu/~egartzke/datasets.htm | online | ||
| Disclosure by Politicians | political institutions | financial disclosure | 2010 | 2010 | http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/rafael.laporta/publications.html | online | ||
| Displacement Locations | international relations | refugee, asylum | 1990 | 2018 | https://github.com/global-displacement-locations/displacement_locations_unhcr | online | ||
| Dissent Scores | protest | dissent, protest, events data | 1990 | 2004 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CL4CA8 | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Distribution of Military Capabilities | international relations | military equipment, military capability | 1970 | 2014 | https://www.militarycapabilities.com/data | online | ||
| Domestic Terrorist Victims dataset | international relations | political violence, target selection, terrorism, victims | 1965 | 2005 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HJHGYA | online | ||
| Dutch Parliamentary Electoral Studies | citizens | Political attitudes, voting behavior, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | NL | 1971 | 1998 | http://www.dpes.nl/en/ | online | |
| Dutch Parliamentary Voting Dataset | cabinets and parliaments | parliament, parliamentary voting behaviour | NL | 1922 | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UXIBNO | online | |
| Economic Freedom of the World | economics | economic freedom, government size, property rights, freedom to trade, regulation | 1970 | 2020 | https://www.fraserinstitute.org/economic-freedom/dataset | online | ||
| Economic Policy Uncertainty Index | economics | policy uncertainty, economic policy | 1985 | 2023 | http://policyuncertainty.com/all_country_data.html | online | ||
| Education Policies and Systems across Modern History | policy | education, education policy, regime type, democratization | 1789 | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/MNM5Q5 | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Eggers and Spirling British Political Development database | elections | roll call votes, election returns, speeches | GB | 1802 | 2010 | https://github.com/ArthurSpirling/EggersSpirlingDatabase | online | |
| Elected LGBTQ Officials | parties and politicians | LGBTQ, gender, sexuality | 1972 | 2022 | https://queerpolitics.princeton.edu/data | online | ||
| Elections Global | elections | elections, parties, election results | 1880 | 2015 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OGOURC | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Electoral Contention and Violence | international relations | electoral contention, nonviolent acts, violent acts, electoral process | 1990 | 2012 | https://ecavdata.org/ | online | ||
| Electoral Law Indicators | political institutions | voting rights, candidacy rights, citizenship, elections, democracy | 2013 | 2015 | http://globalcit.eu/electoral-law-indicators/ | online | ||
| Electoral Legislation by Country | constitutions | electoral law, electoral management | 2020 | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TIH5FK | online | ||
| Electoral Management Survey | elections | election management, electoral integrity | 2017 | 2021 | https://www.electoralintegrityproject.com/electoralmanagementsurvey | online | ||
| Electoral System Design Database | political institutions | electoral system, legislative size, president | 1965 | 2021 | https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/electoral-system-design | online | ||
| Electoral Systems and the Personal Vote | democracy | electoral systems | 1978 | 2005 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AMRXJA | online | ||
| Electoral Volatility and its internal components in Western Europe | elections | electoral volatility, party system institutionalization, party system regeneration | 1945 | 2023 | https://cise.luiss.it/cise/dataset-of-electoral-volatility-and-its-internal-components-in-western-europe-1945-2015/ | online | CC-BY-4.0 | |
| Electoral Volatility in the European Parliament elections | elections | European Parliament, volatility | 1979 | 2014 | https://cise.luiss.it/cise/dataset-of-electoral-volatility-in-the-european-parliament-elections-since-1979/ | online | ||
| Energy Policy Tracker | environment | policies, energy, sectors, gas, oil, wind | 2020 | 2020 | https://www.energypolicytracker.org/region/g20/ | online | ||
| Environmental Performance Index | environment | environment, climate | 2022 | 2022 | http://epi.yale.edu/downloads | online | ||
| Episodes of Regime Transformation | democracy | regime transformation, regime change | 1900 | 2023 | https://github.com/vdeminstitute/ERT | online | ||
| EPRG MEP Surveys | parties and politicians | legislative behaviour, political attitudes | 2000 | 2015 | https://mepsurvey.eu/data-objects/data/ | online | ||
| Estonian National Election Study | citizens | EE | 2003 | 2011 | http://www.enes.ee/ | online | ||
| Ethnic Power Relations | other | ethnic groups, state power | 1946 | 2010 | http://www.columbia.edu/~aw2951/Datasets.html | online | ||
| Ethnonationalism in Party Competition | parties and politicians | ethnicity, party competition | 2007 | 2016 | http://christinazuber.com/data/ | online | ||
| EUI-YouGov survey on Solidarity in Europe | citizens | governments, democracy, EU, ideology, solidarity | 2020 | 2020 | https://cadmus.eui.eu//handle/1814/67584 | online | ||
| EUPROPS | policy | decision-making, EU politics, policy-making | 1958 | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165231202034 | online | ||
| Eurobarometer | citizens | European Union, political attitudes | 1973 | 2022 | https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/ | online | ||
| Europartycheck | parties and politicians | European elections, voting advice application, party positions | DE | 2024 | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7PBJS9 | online | CC0-1.0 |
| Europe Elects | citizens | opinion polls, parties | 2018 | 2020 | https://europeelects.eu/data/ | online | ||
| European Central Bank: Speeches data | political speeches and debates | central bank, communication, speeches | 1997 | 2019 | https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/html/downloads.en.html | online | ||
| European Mood | citizens | EU support, public opinion, mood | 1973 | 2014 | https://tinetteschnatterer.com/projects/eu-mood/ | online | ||
| European NUTS-Level Election Database | elections | NUTS, subnational, regions | 1990 | 2020 | https://eu-ned.com/ | online | ||
| European Opinion Polls as Open Data | citizens | opinion polls, parties | 2014 | 2021 | https://github.com/filipvanlaenen/eopaod | online | ||
| European Protest and Coercion Data | protest | protest, coercion | 1980 | 1995 | http://web.ku.edu/~ronfrand/data/index.html | online | ||
| European Quality of Life | citizens | trust, well-being, quality of life | 2003 | 2016 | https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/surveys/european-quality-of-life-surveys | online | ||
| European Representative Democracy | cabinets and parliaments | cabinets, seats | 1945 | 2010 | https://erdda.org/erd/data-archive/ | online | ||
| European Social Survey | citizens | media and social trust, subjective well-being, human values, immigration, citizen involvement, health and care, economic morality, family work and well-being, timing of life, personal well-being, welf… | 2002 | 2019 | http://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/ | online | ||
| European Values Study | citizens | political attitudes, voting behavior, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | 1981 | 2021 | http://www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu/ | online | ||
| EUSpeech | political speeches and debates | leader speeches, text data, EU | 2007 | 2015 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/XPCVEI | online | ||
| Every Politician | parties and politicians | dates of birth, twitter handles, political group memberships, email addresses, honorific titles, image URLs | 1920 | 2018 | http://everypolitician.org/countries.html | online | ||
| Evolution of European Union Law | political institutions | European Union law, legislative override, network data | 1951 | 2015 | https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cad53vd1zf6vdts/AABc5VuwvNSrxEFjJOrei9f8a?dl=0 | online | ||
| Executive Approval Database | citizens | executive approval | 1938 | 2019 | http://www.executiveapproval.org/datasets-1/ | online | ||
| Expanded Trade and GDP Data | economics | GDP, trade flow | 1948 | 2011 | http://ksgleditsch.com/exptradegdp.html | online | ||
| Extended State History Index | other | state history | -4000 | 2000 | https://sites.google.com/site/econolaols/extended-state-history-index | online | ||
| Extraterritorial Voting Rights and Restrictions Dataset | political institutions | elections, migration, diaspora, electoral systems, democratization, representation, voting rights | 1950 | 2020 | https://www.evrrdataset.com/ | online | ||
| Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database | economics | world trade | 1800 | 1938 | https://www.uc3m.es/ss/Satellite/UC3MInstitucional/es/TextoMixta/1371246237481/Federico-Tena_World_Trade_Historical_Database | online | ||
| Financial Development and Structure Dataset | economics | financial sector, financial institutions | 1960 | 2017 | https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/gfdr/data/financial-structure-database | online | ||
| Financial Reform Database | economics | credit control, interest rate, banking sector | 1973 | 2013 | https://sawaomori.jpn.org/data/ | online | ||
| Financing the State | economics | central government revenues, tax revenue | 1800 | 2012 | https://www.perfandersson.com/data.html | online | ||
| Finnish National Election Study | citizens | 2003 | 2015 | https://www.vaalitutkimus.fi/en/ | online | |||
| Finnish parliamentary speeches | political speeches and debates | parliamentary speech | FI | 1907 | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28028732 | online | CC0-1.0 |
| Fiscal Crisis Episodes | economics | economic growth, financial crises, fiscal policy, sovereign debt | 1970 | 2015 | https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2017/04/03/Fiscal-Crises-44795 | online | ||
| FiveThirtyEight polls | citizens | presidential primary polls, presidential general election polls, Senate polls, House polls, gubernatorial polls, presidential approval polls, generic congressional ballot polls | US | 2019 | 2020 | https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/ | online | |
| FiveThirtyEight's Pollster Ratings | citizens | opinion polls | US | 1998 | 2018 | https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/pollster-ratings | online | |
| Forcibly Displaced Populations | international relations | refugees, internally displaced persons | 1964 | 2008 | http://www.systemicpeace.org/inscrdata.html | online | ||
| Foreign Fighter Observation Set | international relations | foreign fighters | 1980 | 2010 | https://hegghammer.com/resources/ | online | ||
| Foreign Minister Dataset | cabinets and parliaments | foreign minister | 1777 | 2017 | http://www.stanceatlund.org/foreign-minister-dataset.html | online | ||
| Foundations of Rebel Group Emergence | international relations | rebel group | 1946 | 2011 | https://www.jessicamaves.com/forge.html | online | ||
| Fractionalization | other | ethnicity, language, religion | 1979 | 2001 | http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/faculty_pages/romain.wacziarg/papersum.html | online | ||
| Fragile States Index | international relations | security, human rights, inequality, state legitimacy, refugees | 2006 | 2022 | https://fragilestatesindex.org/ | online | ||
| fRDB-IZA Social Reforms Database | policy | labour market reforms | 1980 | 2007 | https://www.frdb.org/en/dati/frdb-iza-social-reforms-database/ | online | ||
| French Electoral Study | citizens | FR | 2007 | 2017 | http://nesstar.sciences-po.fr/webview/ | online | ||
| From Empire to Nation-State | international relations | war, civil war | 1816 | 2001 | http://www.columbia.edu/~aw2951/Datasets.html | online | ||
| Frozen conflicts in world politics | international relations | de facto states, enduring rivalries, frozen conflicts, militarized interstate disputes, strategic rivalries | 1946 | 2011 | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0022343320929726 | online | ||
| Gender and Diplomatic Representation | international relations | gender, diplomacy, foreign missions, bilateral diplomacy | 1968 | 2021 | https://www.gu.se/en/gendip/the-gendip-dataset-on-gender-and-diplomatic-representation | online | ||
| Gender and Religious Bias in the Indian Judiciary | other | gender, religiosity, judicial bias | IN | 2010 | 2018 | http://www.devdatalab.org/judicial-bias-data | online | |
| General Social Survey | citizens | US | 1972 | 2018 | http://gss.norc.org/ | online | ||
| Geocoded Medicaid office locations in the United States | other | enrollment, caseworkers, administrative burdens, geocoding, equity | US | 2021 | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AVRHMI | online | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Geocoded Peacekeeping Operations | international relations | civil conflict, peacekeeping, subnational data | 1994 | 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0022343319871978 | online | ||
| GeoElections Poland | elections | electoral geography, election results | PL | 1990 | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.24258 | online | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Geopolitical Risk Index | international relations | risk | 1900 | 2022 | https://www.matteoiacoviello.com/gpr_country.htm | online | ||
| German Bundestag Election Results at Constituency Level | elections | Bundestag, federal | DE | 1949 | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/S1M6SA | online | |
| German Election Database | elections | municipal elections, state elections, federal elections | DE | 1953 | 2021 | http://www.german-elections.com/ | online | CC0-1.0 |
| German Federal Courts Dataset | political institutions | federal court, law | DE | 1950 | 2019 | http://www.richter-im-internet.de/ | online | |
| German General Social Survey | citizens | political attitudes, voting behavior, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | DE | 1980 | 2021 | https://www.gesis.org/en/allbus/allbus-home | online | |
| German Longitudinal Election Study | citizens | political attitudes, voting behavior, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | DE | 2002 | 2020 | https://gles-en.eu/ | online | |
| German Party Finance Dataset | parties and politicians | party income, party finance, federal, state | DE | 2009 | 2017 | https://www.marc-s-jacob.com/data/finance/ | online | |
| German Political Speeches Corpus and Visualization | political speeches and debates | bundestag, chancellor | DE | 1984 | 2017 | http://adrien.barbaresi.eu/corpora/speeches/ | online | |
| German Post-War Election Database | elections | federal elections, municipal-level data | DE | 1949 | 1969 | https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/RT83Y | online | |
| German Socio-Economic Panel | citizens | political attitudes | DE | 1984 | 2020 | https://www.eui.eu/Research/Library/ResearchGuides/Economics/Statistics/DataPortal/GSOEP | online | |
| GermaParl Corpus of Parliamentary Protocols | political speeches and debates | parliamentary debates, speakers, parliamentary groups | DE | 1949 | 2021 | https://zenodo.org/record/7949074 | online | |
| Gibler-Miller-Little Militarized Interstate Dispute | international relations | international conflict | 1816 | 2010 | http://svmiller.com/gml-mid-data/ | online | ||
| Girl Child Soldier Dataset | international relations | girl fighters, girl soldiers, rebel groups | 1961 | 2011 | https://www.prio.org/JPR/Datasets/ | online | ||
| Global Abortion Incidence Dataset | other | abortion, abortion incidence, reproductive health | 1989 | 2018 | https://osf.io/5k7fp/ | online | ||
| Global Abortion Policies Database | policy | abortion | 2021 | 2021 | https://abortion-policies.srhr.org/ | online | ||
| Global Climate Change Survey | citizens | beliefs, climate change, human behavior, policy making, social values | 2021 | 2022 | https://gccs.iza.org/ | online | ||
| Global Contract-level Public Procurement Dataset | governance | public procurement, contracts, tenders, anti-corruption, market structure, public spending efficiency | 2006 | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.110412 | online | CC-BY-NC-3.0 | |
| Global Dataset on Turnout | elections | turnout, participation | 1945 | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NYXHU9 | online | ||
| Global Debt Database | economics | private debt, household debt, public sector debt, government debt, gdp | 1950 | 2017 | https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/datasets/GDD | online | ||
| Global Dual Citizenship Database | other | citizenship, nationality | 1960 | 2018 | https://macimide.maastrichtuniversity.nl/dual-cit-database/ | online | ||
| Global Earnings Inequality Database | economics | income distribution, inequality, earnings | 1970 | 2018 | https://sites.google.com/site/ollehammar85/data | online | ||
| Global Elections Database | elections | elections | 1944 | 2010 | http://www.globalelectionsdatabase.com/index.php/datasets | online | ||
| Global Leader Ideology | political elites | government, leaders, ideology | 1945 | 2020 | https://www.bastianherre.com/data | online | ||
| Global Legislator Database | political elites | parliamentarians, candidates, legislatures and parliaments, political elites, descriptive representation | 2010 | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/U1ZNVT | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Global Media Freedom Dataset | media | media freedom | 1948 | 2012 | http://faculty.uml.edu/Jenifer_whittenwoodring/MediaFreedomData_000.aspx | online | ||
| Global Military Spending Dataset | international relations | military spending | 1816 | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RKJAKJ | online | CC-BY-1.0 | |
| Global Oil & Gas Features Database | environment | oil, gas, energy | 2017 | 2017 | https://edx.netl.doe.gov/dataset/global-oil-gas-features-database | online | ||
| Global Party Survey | parties and politicians | political parties, populism, party values, issue positions and rhetoric | 2019 | 2019 | https://www.globalpartysurvey.org/ | online | ||
| Global Populism Database | political elites | populism | 1934 | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LFTQEZ | online | ||
| Global Power Plant Database | environment | energy, power plants | 1896 | 2018 | http://datasets.wri.org/dataset/globalpowerplantdatabase | online | ||
| Global Preferences Survey | citizens | economic preferences, trust, altruism, risks, patience | 2012 | 2013 | https://www.briq-institute.org/global-preferences/downloads | online | ||
| Global Repository of Income Dynamics | economics | inequality | 1983 | 2019 | https://www.grid-database.org/ | online | ||
| Global State of Democracy | democracy | democracy, democratic rights | 1975 | 2021 | https://www.idea.int/gsod-indices/dataset-resources | online | ||
| Global State Revenues and Expenditures | economics | public expenditures, public revenue, taxation, state spending | 1946 | 2012 | https://sites.google.com/a/thomaserichter.de/gsre/gsre-1-0 | online | ||
| Global Terrorism Database | international relations | terror, victims, attacks, casualties | 1970 | 2020 | http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/ | online | ||
| Global Transitional Justice Dataset | international relations | transitional justice | 1958 | 2016 | https://www.tjdemstabilitylab.com/data.html | online | ||
| Global Visa Cost Dataset | policy | visa costs, mobility, migration, tourism, visa waiver | 2019 | 2019 | http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu/globalmobilities/dataset/ | online | ||
| Global Work-Injury Policy Dataset | policy | work-injury law, welfare state, accident insurance, social insurance, industrial revolution | 2020 | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/IVKYIE | online | CC-BY-1.0 | |
| GlobalDiplomacyNET | media | diplomatic news, global diplomacy | 2001 | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HYJDE0 | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Government Open Source Software Policies | policy | open source software | 1999 | 2022 | https://www.csis.org/programs/strategic-technologies-program/government-open-source-software-policies | online | ||
| Government Religious Preference | other | religion | 1800 | 2015 | https://www.thearda.com/Archive/Files/Descriptions/GRPCOMP.asp | online | ||
| Government Revenue Dataset | policy | government, revenue, tax effort | 1980 | 2019 | https://www.wider.unu.edu/database/additional-data-files-grd | online | ||
| Government-Sponsored Mass Expulsion | international relations | demographic engineering, ethnic cleansing, forced migration, mass expulsion | 1900 | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433211068633 | online | ||
| Gridded global datasets for Gross Domestic Product and Human Development Index | economics | GDP, HDI, human development | 1990 | 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.4 | online | ||
| Hansard Speeches and Sentiment | political speeches and debates | political speech, MPs, government, debate | GB | 1979 | 2020 | https://evanodell.com/projects/datasets/hansard-data/ | online | |
| Hellenic National Election Studies | citizens | GR | 2009 | 2013 | http://www.elnes.gr/ | online | ||
| High Casualty Terrorist Bombings | international relations | bomb attacks | 1989 | 2021 | http://www.systemicpeace.org/inscrdata.html | online | ||
| Historical Conflict Event Dataset | international relations | conflict, interstate war, intrastate war, history, warfare, peace, security | -1468 | 2003 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6ZFC0V | online | ||
| Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization | other | ethnic fractionalization, ethnic heterogeneity, ethnic diversity, Herfindahl Index | 1945 | 2013 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4JQRCL | online | ||
| Historical Social Conflict Database | protest | sub-national, social conflict, riot, violence, protest | 1090 | 1890 | https://www.unicaen.fr/hiscod/accueil.html | online | ||
| Historical terrorist groups | international relations | terrorism, terrorist groups, democracy | 1860 | 1969 | https://jtschantret.com/data/ | online | ||
| Historical Varieties of Democracy | international relations | democracy, democratization, political institutions | 1789 | 1920 | https://www.v-dem.net/en/historical/ | online | ||
| Hong Kong Political Prisoners | other | political prisoners | HK | 2019 | 2022 | https://hkdc.us/political-prisoners-latest-update/ | online | |
| Human Capital Index | other | human capital | 2018 | 2018 | http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/human-capital | online | ||
| Humanitarian Organisations Dataset | international relations | humanitarian aid, nonstate actors | 1798 | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac009 | online | ||
| Icelandic National Election Study | citizens | Political attitudes, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | IS | 1983 | 2013 | http://fel.hi.is/icelandic_national_election_study_icenes | online | |
| Ill-Treatment and Torture | international relations | human rights, torture | 1995 | 2005 | http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/cconrad2/Academic/Data.html | online | ||
| IMF Programs and World Bank Projects | economics | IMF, World Bank, projects | 1970 | 2019 | https://www.awi.uni-heidelberg.de/professuren/intwipol/datasets_en.html | online | ||
| Immigrant Social Rights Dataset | policy | immigration, immigration social rights, inequality | 1980 | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12955 | online | ||
| Immigration in Party Manifestos | parties and politicians | immigration politics, extreme right, migrant integration, party manifestos, cultural threat | 1960 | 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0010414019858936 | online | ||
| Immigration Policies in Comparison | policy | immigration policy | 1980 | 2010 | http://www.impic-project.eu/data/ | online | ||
| Imperial Roots of Global Trade | economics | imperial capital, empires, trade | -2500 | 2007 | https://www.wnvermeulen.com/empires/index.php | online | ||
| Implementation of Pacts | international relations | power sharing, peace agreements, civil war, conflict resolution | 1990 | 2004 | https://www.pcr.uu.se/data/impact-dataset/ | online | ||
| Incarceration Trends Dataset | other | prison, incarceration, crime | US | 1970 | 2015 | https://github.com/vera-institute/incarceration_trends | online | |
| Indian election data for polling stations and villages | elections | polling stations, national election | IN | 2009 | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KKOWNJ | online | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Inequality and Direct Democracy: European Referenda | elections | inequality, referendum, direct democracy | 1990 | 2015 | https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/74273531/Inequality_and_Direct_Democracy_in_Europe | online | ||
| Inequality and Direct Democracy: International Referenda | elections | inequality, referendum, direct democracy | 1990 | 2015 | https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/74273531/Inequality_and_Direct_Democracy_in_Europe | online | ||
| Infrastructure Database | policy | infrastructure, paved roads, telephone main lines, electricity generating capacity, railway lines | 1950 | 2005 | https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/david-canning/data-sets/ | online | ||
| Institute for the Study of Citizens and Politics Panel | citizens | political attitudes, immigration, prejudice, media | US | 2012 | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CYISG1 | online | |
| Institutional Characteristics of Trade Unions, Wage Setting, State Intervention and Social Pacts | political institutions | trade unions, wage setting, state intervention, social pacts | 1960 | 2018 | http://www.uva-aias.net/en/ictwss | online | ||
| Institutions and Elections Project | political institutions | institutions, elections | 1960 | 2012 | https://havardhegre.net/iaep/ | online | ||
| Intergovernmental Policy Output Dataset | policy | international organizations, policy targets, policy instruments | 1980 | 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11558-023-09492-6 | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| International Crisis Behaviors Events | international relations | international crises, narratives | 1918 | 2017 | https://www.crisisevents.org/ | online | CC-BY-4.0 | |
| International Cyber Expression Dataset | international relations | cyber conflict, cyber norms, discourse, international law | 1998 | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/K4SNTG | online | CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0 | |
| International Environmental Agreements Database | environment | agreements, pollution, energy, species, ocean, habitat | 1351 | 2019 | https://iea.uoregon.edu/ | online | ||
| International Military Intervention | international relations | foreign military intervention, international military intervention, international conflict, use of force | 1946 | 2015 | https://www.k-state.edu/polsci/intervention/ | online | ||
| International Military Training Activities Database-USA | international relations | aid, coups, military training, security assistance, security cooperation | 1996 | 2016 | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00223433211047715 | online | ||
| International Peace Institute Peacekeeping Database | international relations | peacekeeping, personnel contributions | 1990 | 2018 | http://www.providingforpeacekeeping.org/contributions/ | online | ||
| International Political Economy Data Ressource | international relations | political economy, IPE, international political economy | 1789 | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/X093TV | online | ||
| International Sanctions Termination | international relations | sanctions, termination, gradualism | 1990 | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SVR5W7 | online | ||
| International Social Survey Programme | citizens | government, inequality, religion, citizenship, environment | 1985 | 2020 | https://issp.org/ | online | ||
| International Trade and Production Database for Estimation | economics | domestic trade, internal trade, domestic national trade, gravity models of trade | 2000 | 2016 | https://www.usitc.gov/data/gravity/itpde.htm | online | ||
| Interstate War Battle dataset | international relations | battle, conflict, information, interstate war, ripeness theory, war | 1823 | 2003 | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0022343320913305 | online | ||
| Interwar Debt | economics | economic history, debt policy, public finance, macroeconomics | 1913 | 1946 | https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2019/10/25/Instruments-of-Debtstruction-A-New-Database-of-Interwar-Debt-48689 | online | ||
| Interwar Period International Trade in Arms data | international relations | weapons transfer, arms trade | 1920 | 1939 | https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027241228189 | online | ||
| Investing in Education in Europe | citizens | educational policy, mass political behaviour, social welfare policy | 2014 | 2014 | https://search.gesis.org/research_data/ZA6961 | online | ||
| Irish Demographic Polling Datasets | citizens | opinion polls, demographics | IE | 2011 | 2022 | https://github.com/Irish-Dem-Polling/datasets | online | |
| Irish National Election Study | citizens | IE | 2002 | 2007 | http://www.tcd.ie/ines/index.php?action=download | online | ||
| Irish Polling Indicator | citizens | opinion polls | IE | 1982 | 2020 | https://www.pollingindicator.com/ | online | |
| Israel National Election Studies | citizens | political attitudes, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | IL | 1969 | 2022 | https://socsci4.tau.ac.il/mu2/ines/ | online | |
| Israel Polarization Panel Dataset | citizens | polarization, affective polarization | IL | 2019 | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/A6AA4X | online | |
| Issue Competition Comparative Project | citizens | issue competition, twitter | 2017 | 2018 | https://cise.luiss.it/iccp/index.php/data/ | online | ||
| Issue ownership | parties and politicians | issue ownership, party, welfare, environment, unemployment | 1969 | 2015 | https://henrikbechseeberg.weebly.com/datasets.html | online | ||
| Italian National Election Studies | citizens | Political attitudes, voting behavior, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | IT | 1968 | 2016 | http://www.itanes.org/en/ | online | |
| Jihadi Plots in Europe Dataset | international relations | terrorism, jihadi plots | https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433221123360 | |||||
| Jihadi Plots in the West | international relations | domestic fighting, foreign fighting | 1990 | 2010 | https://hegghammer.com/resources/ | online | ||
| Joint Military Exercises Dataset | international relations | military exercise, alliances, international cooperation | 1977 | 2016 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HXQFHU | online | ||
| Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database | economics | GDP, government revenue, money, interest rates, credit, asset prices, financial crisis | 1870 | 2020 | http://www.macrohistory.net/data/ | online | ||
| Judicial Checks and Balances | constitutions | judicial independence, constitutional review | 1789 | 1995 | http://faculty.tuck.dartmouth.edu/rafael-laporta/research-publications/ | online | ||
| Judicial Review of Congress Database | political institutions | US | 1789 | 2018 | https://scholar.princeton.edu/kewhitt/judicial-review-congress-database | online | ||
| Jurist-Derived Judicial Ideology Scores | political institutions | judicial ideology, judicial behavior | US | 1990 | 2022 | https://judjis.org/ | online | |
| Knowledge Economy Index | economics | knowledge economy, technology | 1995 | 2019 | https://www.knowledge-economy-index.com/data-and-documentation | online | ||
| KOF Globalization Index | other | economic globalization, political globalization, social globalization | 1970 | 2020 | http://globalization.kof.ethz.ch/ | online | ||
| Konstanz One-Sided Violence Event Dataset | international relations | mass killings, massacres, one-sided violence, political violence | 1985 | 2008 | https://cms.uni-konstanz.de/fileadmin/archive/kosved/polver/gschneider/forschung/kosved/data/ | online | ||
| Korean General Social Survey | citizens | Political attitudes, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | KR | 2003 | 2016 | http://kgss.skku.edu/?page_id=39 | online | |
| Lankina Russian Protest-Event Dataset | protest | protest, electoral authoritarianism, regions | RU | 2007 | 2016 | https://katerinatertytchnaya.com/research/ | online | |
| Latent Human Rights Protection Scores | international relations | accountability, repression, human rights | 1949 | 2013 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/24872 | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Latin American Guerrillas Dataset | international relations | guerrilla organizations, rebel diplomacy, rebel governance | 1950 | 2016 | https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433231215751 | online | ||
| Latin American Legislators Dataset | parties and politicians | unicameral legislatures, bicameral legislatures, gender, elite turnover, seniority | 1978 | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/NK4MA | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Latinobarometro | citizens | political attitudes, voting behavior, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | 1995 | 2020 | http://www.latinobarometro.org/lat.jsp | online | ||
| Leader Experience and Attribute Descriptions | political elites | military experiences, childhood, education, personal, family life | 1875 | 2001 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SYZZEY | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Leaders’ Willingness to Use Force | international relations | political leaders, interstate conflict | 1840 | 2004 | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055420000313 | online | ||
| Legislative decision-making in the European Union | policy | decision-making, European Union, Council of Ministers, EU legislative process | 1999 | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.34810/data53/2 | online | ||
| Legislative production in the EU, 1967-2012 | political institutions | regulations, directives, decisions, codifications | 1967 | 2012 | http://www.dimiter.eu/Data.html | online | ||
| Legislative Progression in the American States | policy | state legislatures, state politics, legislative politics | US | 2003 | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8PTHXT | online | |
| Legislator Diversity | parties and politicians | party affiliation | US | 2010 | 2022 | https://www.legislatordiversity.com/ | online | |
| Life in Transition Survey | citizens | life satisfaction, governance | 2006 | 2016 | http://www.ebrd.com/what-we-do/economic-research-and-data/data/lits.html | online | ||
| Lobby meetings with UK Government Ministers | cabinets and parliaments | lobby, ministers | GB | 2012 | 2020 | https://openaccess.transparency.org.uk/ | online | |
| Local Candidate Dataset | parties and politicians | candidates | NO | 1971 | 2023 | http://www.jon.fiva.no/data.htm | online | |
| Local Government Dataset | elections | policy, elections, demography | NO | 1972 | 2022 | http://www.jon.fiva.no/data.htm | online | |
| LocalView Public Meetings Database | other | local politics, political communication, deliberative democracy | US | 2006 | 2022 | https://localview.net/ | online | |
| Long-Term Productivity Database | economics | GDP, labor productivity, capital stock | 1890 | 2018 | http://longtermproductivity.com/ | online | ||
| Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social sciences | citizens | health, religion and ethnicity, social integration and leisure, family and household, work and schooling, personality, politics and values, economic situation | NL | 2007 | 2023 | https://www.lissdata.nl/ | online | |
| Maddison Project Database | economics | economic growth, income levels | 1 | 2010 | https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/releases/maddison-project-database-2020?lang=en | online | ||
| Major Episodes of Political Violence | international relations | warfare, political violence, conflict | 1946 | 2018 | http://www.systemicpeace.org/inscrdata.html | online | ||
| Making Electoral Democracy Work | citizens | elections, political behavior, multi-level politics, mass political attitudes, voting behavior, electoral participation, subnational elections, supranational elections, national elections, federal ele… | 2011 | 2015 | http://electoraldemocracy.com/medw-survey-data-open-access-2485 | online | ||
| Malaysian Election Corpus | elections | federal elections, state elections, candidate data, constituency data | MY | 1955 | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/O4CRXK | online | CC0-1.0 |
| Manifesto Project Main Dataset (Party Preferences) | parties and politicians | national elections, election programmes | 1920 | 2017 | https://manifesto-project.wzb.eu/datasets | online | ||
| MAPLE Parliamentary Datasets | political speeches and debates | parliamentary speech | 1997 | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/9MN0RL | online | ||
| Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database | international relations | protest | 2003 | 2012 | https://mmadatabase.org/ | online | ||
| Mass Mobilization Protest Data | protest | protests, demonstrations | 1990 | 2018 | https://massmobilization.github.io/ | online | ||
| Measuring the Impacts of Colonialism | international relations | colonialism | 1506 | 1997 | https://andrewalter.netlify.com/project/globdev/ | online | ||
| Media Populism Expert Survey | media | media populism, populism | 2021 | 2021 | https://mpop-survey.org/ | online | ||
| Media System Freedom | media | media freedom, political communication | 1948 | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ENOEQS | online | ||
| Members and Activists of Political Parties | parties and politicians | political parties, comparative politics, party membership | 1946 | 2014 | https://zenodo.org/record/61234 | online | ||
| Members of the European Parliament | parties and politicians | european integration, Members of European Parliament, political class, political elite, European Parliament | 1979 | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/V2FJEF | online | ||
| Memberships in Conventional Intergovernmental Organizations | international relations | intergovernmental organizations | 1952 | 1997 | http://www.systemicpeace.org/inscrdata.html | online | ||
| Militant Group Electoral Participation Dataset | international relations | militant group electoral participation, rebel parties, post-conflict elections, wartime elections | 1943 | 2010 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/FB0R8A | online | ||
| Militarized Compellent Threats | international relations | bargaining, coercion, coercive diplomacy, compellence, crises, threats | 1918 | 2001 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/VDJQ1E | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Militarized Interstate Confrontation Dataset | international relations | international conflict | 1816 | 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1177/00220027221104704 | forthcoming | ||
| Militarized Interstate Events | international relations | militarized interstate confrontations, war | 1816 | 2014 | https://doi.org/10.1177/07388942231182674 | online | ||
| Military Intervention Project | international relations | military intervention, foreign policy, war | 1776 | 2019 | https://sites.tufts.edu/css/mip-research/ | forthcoming | ||
| Military Mutinies and Defections Database | international relations | civil military relations, coup d’état, military, mutiny, protests, unrest | 1945 | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00223433211020092 | online | ||
| Military Purges in Dictatorships | international relations | authoritarianism, civil-military relations, coup, event data, purges, repression | 1965 | 2005 | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0022343320966375 | online | ||
| Minorities at Risk | international relations | minorities, risk | 2004 | 2006 | http://www.mar.umd.edu/mar_data.asp | online | ||
| Misinformation Intervention Database | other | misinformation interventions | 2010 | 2023 | https://www.democratic-erosion.com/briefs/misinformation-intervention-database/ | online | ||
| Missing Migrants Project | other | migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers | 2014 | 2020 | https://missingmigrants.iom.int/downloads | online | ||
| Moral Machine | other | moral decisions | 2016 | 2017 | https://osf.io/3hvt2/?view_only=4bb49492edee4a8eb1758552a362a2cf | online | ||
| MPs additional income | parties and politicians | additional income, parliament, politicians | GB | 2017 | 2019 | https://datalobo.com/mp-earnings/ | online | |
| Multiculturalism Policy Index | policy | immigrant minority policy, recognition policies, affirmative action | 1960 | 2020 | https://www.queensu.ca/mcp/ | online | ||
| Myers Abortion Facility Database | policy | abortion facility, distance | US | 2009 | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/8DG7R | online | |
| National Accounts Main Aggregates Database | economics | economics, gdp, export, import | 1970 | 2020 | https://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/dnlList.asp | online | ||
| National and District Level Party Systems Datasets | political institutions | party systems, number of parties, list type | 1945 | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ME2W6U | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| National Database of Childcare Prices | policy | childcare prices | US | 2008 | 2018 | https://www.dol.gov/agencies/wb/topics/childcare | online | |
| National Defense Engagement Index | parties and politicians | Congress, engagement, expressed Agenda, defense politics | US | 1947 | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12437 | online | |
| National Elections Across Democracy and Autocracy | elections | electoral competition | 1945 | 2020 | http://www.nelda.co/ | online | ||
| Nationscape | citizens | political attitudes | US | 2019 | 2020 | https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publication/nationscape-data-set-release-1 | online | |
| Native American Conflict History | international relations | colonialism, conflict duration, Native American | US | 1518 | 1909 | https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343320987274 | online | |
| NCSL Ballot Measures | elections | state ballot measures | US | 1902 | 2016 | https://ippsr.msu.edu/public-policy/correlates-state-policy/ncsl-ballot-measures-correlates | online | |
| Negative Campaigning Comparative Data | elections | candidates, expert survey, personality, populism, negative campaigning, emotional appeals | 2016 | 2020 | https://www.alessandro-nai.com/negex-data | online | ||
| Net Volatility in Western Europe | elections | disproportionality, number of parties, turnout, volatility | 1950 | 2014 | https://soc.kuleuven.be/web/staticpage/11/95/eng/1197 | online | ||
| New Parties and Party System Innovation in Western Europe since 1945 | parties and politicians | electoral volatility, party system institutionalization, party system regeneration | 1945 | 2016 | https://cise.luiss.it/cise/dataset-of-new-parties-and-party-system-innovation-in-western-europe-since-1945/ | online | ||
| New Zealand Election Study | citizens | Political attitudes, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | NZ | 1990 | 2014 | http://www.nzes.org/exec/show/data | online | |
| Newspaper presidential endorsements | media | president, endorsement, newspapers | US | 1980 | 2020 | https://noahveltman.com/endorsements/ | online | |
| Nonviolent & Violent Campaigns and Outcomes | international relations | nonviolent campaigns, violent campaigns | 1900 | 2011 | https://www.du.edu/korbel/sie/research/chenow_navco_data.html | online | ||
| Norwegian Citizen Panel | citizens | NO | 2013 | 2018 | http://www.nsd.uib.no/nsddata/serier/norsk_medborgerpanel_eng.html | online | ||
| Norwegian Election Studies | citizens | NO | 1957 | 2013 | http://www.nsd.uib.no/nsddata/serier/norske_valgundersokelser_eng.html | online | ||
| Norwegian Parliamentary Elections, 1906-2021 | parties and politicians | elections, parliamentary elections, parliamentary candidates, politicians | NO | 1906 | 2021 | https://www.jon.fiva.no/data.htm | online | |
| Nuclear Production Capabilities Dataset | international relations | nuclear proliferation, counterproliferation, nuclear weapons, security, nuclear nonproliferation treaty, capabilities | 1938 | 2001 | http://pages.ucsd.edu/~egartzke/datasets.htm | online | ||
| Oil and Gas Data | economics | oil, petroleum natural resources | 1932 | 2014 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZTPW0Y | online | ||
| One-Party Membership Dataset | parties and politicians | autocracies, party members, party structure | 1945 | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433231155278 | online | ||
| ParlEE Plenary Speeches | political speeches and debates | parliaments, legislative speech, EU politics | 2009 | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZY3RV7 | online | ||
| ParlGov: Cabinets | cabinets and parliaments | cabinets | 1900 | 2017 | http://www.parlgov.org/ | online | ||
| ParlGov: Elections | elections | elections | 1900 | 2017 | http://www.parlgov.org/ | online | ||
| ParlGov: Parties | parties and politicians | parties | 1900 | 2017 | http://www.parlgov.org/ | online | ||
| Parliamentary communication in the German Bundestag | political speeches and debates | parliaments, representation | DE | 1947 | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7EJ1KI | online | |
| Parliamentary Deployment Votes Database | international relations | military intervention, legislatures, political parties, legislative-executive relations, contestation, Foreign Policy Analysis | 1990 | 2019 | http://deploymentvotewatch.eu/?page_id=2 | online | ||
| Parliamentary Rules Database | cabinets and parliaments | UK House of Commons, Irish Dáil | 1811 | 2016 | https://parlrulesdata.org/ | online | ||
| Parliamentary Speeches in Ireland | political speeches and debates | parliamentary debates, Dáil Éireann | IE | 1919 | 2013 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6MZN76 | online | |
| Parliaments and governments database | cabinets and parliaments | parliaments, governments, political parties, elections | 1900 | 2023 | http://www.parlgov.org/ | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Parliaments Day-By-Day | parties and politicians | parliamentary research, parliaments, politician level data, who-is-who | 1947 | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PYGBDO | online | ||
| ParlQuestionTime | political speeches and debates | speech contributions, issue attention, parliamentary question time | 2004 | 2022 | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ParlQuestionTime | online | ||
| parlScot | political speeches and debates | parliaments, committees, gender, constituency | GB | 1999 | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EQ9WBE | online | |
| ParlSpeech | political speeches and debates | members of parliament, politicians, communication, speeches | 1988 | 2016 | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/E4RSP9 | online | ||
| ParlSpeech V2 | political speeches and debates | members of parliament, politicians, communication, speeches | 1987 | 2019 | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/L4OAKN | online | ||
| Parltrack | cabinets and parliaments | European Parliament, plenary amendments, plenary votes, committee agendas | 2011 | 2024 | https://parltrack.eu/dumps | online | ODbL-1.0 | |
| Parties’ Group Appeals Dataset | parties and politicians | party politics, group appeals | 1977 | 2015 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NZQGST | online | ||
| Partisan Electoral Interventions by the Great-powers | elections | external interventions, great powers, partisan electoral interventions | 1946 | 2000 | https://www.dovhlevin.com/datasets | online | ||
| Party Facts | parties and politicians | political parties | 1788 | 2018 | https://partyfacts.herokuapp.com/ | online | ||
| Party Policy in Modern Democracies | parties and politicians | ideology, parties, economy, nationalism | 2003 | 2004 | http://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/ppmd/ | online | ||
| Party positions from Wikipedia tags | parties and politicians | party positions, ideology | 2022 | 2022 | https://github.com/hdigital/partypositions-wikitags | online | ||
| Party primaries in Spain | parties and politicians | political participation, intra-party democracy, candidate selection, leadership selection | ES | 1991 | 2023 | https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10066111 | online | CC-BY-4.0 |
| Party Representation of Social Groups | parties and politicians | political inequality, political representation, social groups | 2002 | 2016 | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F13540688211023859 | online | ||
| Party-Interest Group Relationships in Contemporary Democracies | parties and politicians | interest groups, party-group relationships, political parties | 2016 | 2018 | https://pairdem.org/pairdem/ | online | ||
| Paths to Power | cabinets and parliaments | ministers, cabinets, governments, social background | 1966 | 2021 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TP42YG | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Peace Accords Matrix Implementation | international relations | Intrastate peace, peace agreements, implementation | 1989 | 2015 | https://peaceaccords.nd.edu/research | online | ||
| Peace Agreement Database | international relations | conflict, peace agreements, peace process | 1990 | 2016 | http://www.politicalsettlements.org/portfolio/pa-x-database/ | online | ||
| Peace Negotiations in Civil Conflicts | international relations | conflict resolution, civil wars, mediation, negotiation, peace agreement, bargaining, internal armed conflict | 1975 | 2013 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0BMHXD | online | ||
| Peaceful Resolution of Territorial Disputes | international relations | adjudication, arbitration, negotiations, peaceful resolution, territorial disputes | 1945 | 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0022343319895560 | online | ||
| Peacekeeping and the Peacekept | international relations | 1947 | 1999 | http://www.columbia.edu/~vpf4/research.htm | online | |||
| PeaceKeeping Operations Corpus | international relations | peacekeeping, text-as-data | 1994 | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343320978693 | online | ||
| Perceived Mass Atrocities Dataset | international relations | atrocities | 2018 | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433241249333 | forthcoming | ||
| Perceptions of Electoral Integrity | elections | elections, electoral integrity, electoral fraud, voting behavior, cross-national elections, global, comparative politics, free and fair | 2012 | 2017 | https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/PEI | online | ||
| Pew Global Attitudes Survey | citizens | political attitudes, voting behavior, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | 2001 | 2021 | http://www.pewglobal.org/datasets/ | online | ||
| Police Reforms in Peace Agreements | international relations | police reform, capacity, training, human rights standards, accountability, force composition, international training, monitoring | 1975 | 2011 | https://doi.org/10.1177/0022343316628932 | online | ||
| Policlim | parties and politicians | climate change discourse, manifestos | 1990 | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OXMPTR | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Policy Choice and Organizational Representation in the United States | policy | interest groups, state politics, policy preferences, political economy | US | 1997 | 2022 | https://doi.org/10.1017/spq.2024.6 | online | CC0-1.0 |
| Policy complexity in the European Union | policy | European Commission, European Union, legislation, policy complexity, policy formulation | 1993 | 2021 | https://www.euplex.org/data/ | online | ||
| Policy Ideology in Europe | citizens | economic ideology, social ideology, immigration ideology | 1981 | 2016 | https://tomogradypolitics.wordpress.com/data-on-european-ideology/ | online | ||
| Political Advertisements from Facebook | media | facebook, political advertising, advertising, crowdsourced | 2017 | 2018 | https://www.propublica.org/datastore/dataset/political-advertisements-from-facebook | online | ||
| Political Apology database | international relations | human rights, political apologies | 1947 | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00223433211024696 | online | ||
| Political Conflict and Democracy: Contentious Episodes | protest | austerity, institutional reforms | 2008 | 2016 | https://poldem.eui.eu/download/contentious-episodes/ | online | ||
| Political Conflict and Democracy: Election Campaigns | elections | newspapers, European integration | 1970 | 2019 | https://poldem.eui.eu/download/election-campaigns/ | online | ||
| Political Conflict and Democracy: Protest Events | protest | protest, economy, environment, regional, xenophobia | 2000 | 2015 | https://poldem.eui.eu/download/protest-events/ | online | ||
| Political Conflict and Democracy: Public Debates | other | economic liberalism, European integration, immigration | 1967 | 2012 | https://poldem.eui.eu/download/public-debates/ | online | ||
| Political experience of national leaders | political elites | political experience | 1950 | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NRC1ZD | online | ||
| Political Leaders’ Affiliation Database | parties and politicians | political leader, birthplace, ethnicity | 1989 | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YUS575 | online | ||
| Political Parties of India | parties and politicians | national elections, state elections | IN | 1962 | 2021 | https://tcpd.ashoka.edu.in/political-parties-of-india/ | online | |
| Political Parties, Presidents, Elections, and Governments (PPEG) | elections | elections, cabinets, parties, presidential elections | 1945 | 2021 | https://ppeg.wzb.eu/ | online | ||
| Political Party Database | parties and politicians | political parties | 2002 | 2016 | https://www.politicalpartydb.org/ | online | CC0-1.0 | |
| Political Regimes of the World | democracy | autocracy, democracy, political regimes | 1800 | 2016 | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41304-018-0149-8 | online | ||
| Political Risk Insurance | international relations | expropriation, foreign direct investment, inconvertibility, insurance, multinationals, political risk | 1961 | 2017 | https://github.com/vincentarelbundock/opic | online | ||
| Political Settlements | international relations | political settlements, political economy of development, political power concentration, coup, corruption reduction, industrial growth, economic policy, threats | 1945 | 2019 | https://www.effective-states.org/political-settlements/ | online | ||
| Political Terror Scale | international relations | political terror | 1976 | 2024 | http://www.politicalterrorscale.org/Data/Download.html | online | ||
| Political TV Ad Archive | media | tv, advertising | US | 2015 | 2016 | http://politicaladarchive.org/data/ | online | |
| Poll of Polls | citizens | opinion polls | 2010 | 2018 | https://pollofpolls.eu/ | online | ||
| PollBase | citizens | opinion polls | GB | 1943 | 2026 | https://www.markpack.org.uk/opinion-polls/ | online | |
| PollBasePro: Daily Estimates of Aggregate Voting Intention in Great Britain | citizens | British politics, opinion polls, public opinion, voting intention | GB | 1955 | 2021 | https://github.com/jackobailey/britpol | online | |
| Polls and the Timeline of Elections | citizens | 1935 | 2017 | https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/government/faculty/cw26629#datasets-on-polls-and-the-timeline-of-elections | online | |||
| Polyarchy Index of Democracy | democracy | democracy index | 1810 | 2000 | https://www.prio.org/data/20 | online | ||
| Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey | parties and politicians | populism, political parties, expert survey, party positions | 2008 | 2008 | http://poppa-data.eu/ | online | ||
| Portuguese Candidates Survey | political elites | politicians, campaigns | PT | 2009 | 2017 | http://er.cies.iscte-iul.pt/en/node/42 | online | |
| Portuguese MPs Survey | political elites | political attitudes | PT | 2007 | 2017 | http://er.cies.iscte-iul.pt/en/node/42 | online | |
| Portuguese Voters Survey | citizens | political attitudes, voting behavior, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | PT | 2006 | 2018 | http://er.cies.iscte-iul.pt/en/node/42 | online | |
| Power-Sharing Event Dataset | international relations | civil conflict, event data, government-rebel dyads, power-sharing, post-conflict countries | 1989 | 2011 | http://www.martinottmann.com/project/psed/ | online | ||
| Presidential Power Scores | political institutions | presidential power | 1788 | 2011 | https://presidential-power.net/?page_id=2148 | online | ||
| Presidential, Senatorial, & Gubernatorial Elections in the U.S. Counties | elections | presidential elections, Senate elections, gubernatorial elections | US | 1872 | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DGUMFI | online | |
| Private Members' Bills in the UK House of Commons | parties and politicians | private members, proposals | GB | 1964 | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EEYIHN | online | |
| Private Prisons | other | private prisons, state politics, prisoner lawsuits | US | 1986 | 2018 | https://www.annagunderson.com/data/private-prisons | online | |
| Pro-Government Militias Database | international relations | militias, repression, political violence, non-state actor | 1981 | 2014 | https://www.sabinecarey.com/militias-data | online | ||
| Protest events | protest | protest events, social movements | 1975 | 1999 | https://www.unige.ch/sciences-societe/incite/welcome-to-the-incite-website/data/new-s/ | online | ||
| Public Gender Egalitarianism Database | citizens | gender equality, gender egalitarianism | 1972 | 2021 | https://dcpo.org/data/pge/ | online | ||
| Public Plans Database | policy | pension, pension plans | US | 2001 | 2018 | https://publicplansdata.org/public-plans-database/download-full-data-set/ | online | |
| Public Policy Mood | citizens | ideology, policy | US | 1952 | 2018 | http://stimson.web.unc.edu/data/ | online | |
| Quality of Government | governance | governance, democracy, rule of law, party system, welfare regime | 1946 | 2021 | http://qog.pol.gu.se/data/datadownloads/qogstandarddata | online | ||
| Quantified Political Relationships | international relations | cooperation, conflict | 2001 | 2014 | http://www.simonweschle.com/data | online | ||
| Quotebank: A Corpus of Quotations from a Decade of News | media | quotations | 2008 | 2020 | https://zenodo.org/record/4277311 | online | ||
| Raw data from online personality tests | other | personality | 2011 | 2018 | https://openpsychometrics.org/_rawdata/ | online | ||
| Real effective exchange rates | economics | nominal effective exchange rates, consumer price index | 1960 | 2023 | https://www.bruegel.org/publications/datasets/real-effective-exchange-rates-for-178-countries-a-new-database | online | ||
| Rebel Appeals and Incentives Dataset | international relations | rebel appeals, incentives, ideology | 1989 | 2011 | https://www.michaelsoules.com/general-5 | online | ||
| Rebel Contraband Dataset | international relations | civil war, crime, natural resources, resource curse | 1990 | 2015 | http://civilwardynamics.org/data/ | online | ||
| Rebel Foreign Fighter Dataset | international relations | civil war, foreign fighters | 1989 | 2011 | https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433231168183 | online | ||
| Rebel Human Rights Violations | international relations | international human rights, rebel groups, civil war | 1990 | 2020 | https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433221147940 | online | ||
| Rebel Organization Leaders Database | international relations | rebel leaders | 1964 | 2012 | https://www.rebelleaders.org/ | online | ||
| Refugee Resettlement Data | other | refugee, resettlement | US | 1975 | 2018 | https://www.refugeeresettlementdata.com/data.html | online | |
| Regional Authority Index | other | fiscal authority, regional authority | 1950 | 2016 | https://www.arjanschakel.nl/index.php/regional-authority-index | online | ||
| Regional Manifestos Project | parties and politicians | manifesto, positional scales, regional elections | 1968 | 2017 | http://www.regionalmanifestosproject.com/ingles/download-dataset | online | ||
| Regular Turnover Details | international relations | comparative politics, domestic politics, international relations, leader survival | 1960 | 2015 | https://doi.org/10.1177/00223433211045854 | online | ||
| Relative Political Capacity Dataset | governance | government performance, government efficiency, political capacity, state capacity | 1960 | 2018 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NRR7MB | online | ||
| Religion Adherence Data | other | 1900 | 2000 | https://scholar.harvard.edu/barro/publications/religion-adherence-data | online | |||
| Religion and State Project Constitutions Dataset | constitutions | seperation of relgion and state, government, religion | 1990 | 2008 | http://www.thearda.com/archive/files/Descriptions/RASCONS.asp | online | ||
| Reputation of Terror Groups | international relations | terrorist groups, reputations | 1980 | 2011 | http://www.efetokdemir.com/data.html | online | ||
| Revolutionary Leaders and Revolutions | international relations | revolutionary leaders, international conflict | 1945 | 2004 | https://sites.google.com/site/jeffdcolgan/data | online | ||
| Right-Wing Terrorism and Violence | international relations | right-wing extremism, terrorism, violence | 1990 | 2015 | https://www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/english/rtv/index.html | online | ||
| Rising Powers Diplomatic Network | international relations | foreign policy, diplomacy, newly industrializing countries, historical analysis, bilateral relations, diplomatic representation, international leading power | 1995 | 2019 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5FISNQ | online | ||
| Roll Call Votes in the European Parliament | parties and politicians | roll-call voting, legislative behavior, members of parliament | 1979 | 2009 | http://personal.lse.ac.uk/hix/HixNouryRolandEPdata.HTM | online | ||
| Rosés-Wolf database on regional GDP | economics | regional inequality, gdp | 1900 | 2010 | https://www.wiwi.hu-berlin.de/de/professuren/vwl/wg/resources/roses-wolf-database-on-regional-gdp | online | ||
| Rule of Law Index | political institutions | constraints on government powers, absence of corruption, open government, fundamental rights, order and security, regulatory enforcement, civil justice, criminal justice | 2012 | 2021 | https://worldjusticeproject.org/our-work/wjp-rule-law-index/wjp-rule-law-index-2016/current-historical-data | online | ||
| Rulers, Elections, and Irregular Governance | international relations | political leaders, leader characteristics | 1950 | 2019 | https://oefdatascience.github.io/REIGN.github.io/ | online | ||
| Scottish Election Study | citizens | political attitudes, voting behavior, political participation, socio-demographic characteristics | GB | 1999 | 2019 | https://scottishelections.ac.uk/ | online | |
| Scottish Party Election Manifestos | parties and politicians | election manifesto | GB | 1999 | 2016 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PH8XZO | online | |
| Seki-Williams Governments Dataset | cabinets and parliaments | governments, cabinets, ministers, stability, duration | 1944 | 2014 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/0UNUAM | online | ||
| Select American State Party Platforms | parties and politicians | political parties, American states | US | 1846 | 2017 | https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/KNOSHL | online | |
| Serious Nuclear and Radiological Incidents | other | nuclear incidents, radiological incidents | 1960 | 2013 | https://hegghammer.com/resources/ | online | ||
| Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict | international relations | conflict-related sexual violence, armed conflict actors, government military, state military, insurgent forces | 1989 | 2021 | http://www.sexualviolencedata.org/dataset/ | online |