Use this guide to locate resources for studying political science, including background reading, books, journal and newspaper articles, websites, data and statistics.
Archive of digital analysis-ready social science data in multiple software formats including SPSS, SAS, and Stata. Summary statistics for online analysis datasets.
While you may be able to view some information on ICPSR -- GCC students, faculty & staff will need to create an account in order to download datasets, etc. This can be done by clicking "Log In / Create Account" on the top right.
The survey gathers the opinions of Americans on issues such as religion, politics, race, gender, and free speech. Data is available from 1972 to the present. Users can download into SPSS or STATA formats.
This site links users to data "covering international economic, environmental, political, and social data and data on similar topics for the United States."
Provides access to data sets related to issues such as poverty, war/conflict, trade, labor, and others for geographies including Europe, Africa, and the world.
According to the site, "the Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Dataset contains standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 15 internationally recognized human rights for 195 countries, annually from 1981-2009."
START seeks to collect and disseminate valuable datasets so that academics, analysts, and practitioners can take these objective baselines as their starting point for future analysis and decision-making. Most of the datasets provided here, but not all, can be downloaded for free.
