A collection of political datasets. The datasets are listed below within specific categories: cabinets, citizens, constitutions, political institutions, parties and politicians, democracy, economics, elections, international relations, media, policy, political elites. All datasets are listed in the datasets in the repository (.xlsx, .csvs) with detailed information on the topics, coverage and availability of the respective datasets.
name= Name of datasetcategory= Dataset category (cabinets,citizensetc.)link= URL to datasettopics= Specific topics of interest in the datasetcountry= Name of country (for single country datasets)region_africa= Country in African Group (United Nations Regional Groups of Member States)region_asia= Country in Asia-Pacific Group (United Nations Regional Groups of Member States)region_easteurope= Country in Eastern European Group (United Nations Regional Groups of Member States)region_latinamerica= Country in Latin American and Caribbean Group (United Nations Regional Groups of Member States)region_westeurope= Country in Western European and Others Group (United Nations Regional Groups of Member States)year_start= Time coverage, year startyear_end= Time coverage, year endavailability= Availability of datasetregistration= Requirements for data accessfree= Free access to data (1 = Yes, 0 = No)file_codebook= URL to documentation (usually.pdf)file_csv= URL to dataset (.csv)file_dta= URL to dataset (.dta)file_sav= URL to dataset (.sav)file_excel= URL to dataset (Excel)file_r= URL to dataset (.Rdata)file_zip= URL to data package (.zip)variable_country= Name of country string variablevariable_year= Name of year variablevariable_cow= Name of Correlates of War numeric identifier variabledoi_article= DOI for article on datasetdoi_dataset= DOI for datasetrevised= Date for last revision in PolData (ISO 8601, YYYYMMDD)note= Additional info
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- Basic data on parliaments
- Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining
- Coalition Governments in Western Europe
- Debates in the Council of the European Union
- Dutch Parliamentary Voting Dataset
- European Representative Democracy
- Governments Data, 1950-1995
- ParlGov: Cabinets
- Parliamentary Rules Database
- Parliaments and governments database -ParlSpeech
- ParlSpeech V2
- Parties in Parliaments and Governments, 1950-1995
- Party Government Data Set
- Portfolio Allocation in Western Europe
- Seki-Williams Governments Dataset
- Seki-Williams Ministers Dataset
- United States of America Cabinet Appointments Dataset
- Veto Players Data
- WhoGov
- Afrobarometer
- Americas Barometer
- Arab Barometer
- Asian Barometer
- Caucasus Barometer
- Eurobarometer
- Latinobarómetro
- American National Election Studies
- Australian Election Studies: Voter Studies
- Austrian National Election Study
- Belgium General Election Study
- British Election Study
- Canadian Election Study
- Danish National Election Study
- Dutch Parliamentary Electoral Studies
- Election Studies Eastern Europe
- Estonian National Election Study
- Finnish National Election Study
- French Electoral Study
- German Longitudinal Election Study
- Hellenic National Election Studies
- Icelandic National Election Study
- Irish National Election Study
- Israel National Election Studies
- Italian National Election Studies
- New Zealand Election Study
- Norwegian Election Studies
- Portuguese Voters Survey
- Swedish National Election Studies
- Swiss Electoral Studies
- Welsh Election Study
- Australian Constitutional Referendum Study
- Australian National Political Attitudes Surveys
- British Social Attitudes
- Chinese General Social Survey
- Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
- Cooperative Congressional Election Study
- Cultural Pathways to Economic Self-Sufficiency and Entrepreneurship
- Democracy Fund Voter Study Group
- EUI-YouGov survey on Solidarity in Europe
- European Election Studies: Voter Study
- European Quality of Life
- European Social Survey
- European Values Study
- General Social Survey
- German General Social Survey
- Global Preferences Survey
- International Social Survey Programme
- Investing in Education in Europe
- Issue Competition Comparative Project
- Korean General Social Survey
- Life in Transition Survey
- Making Electoral Democracy Work
- Nationscape
- Pew Global Attitudes Survey
- Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
- Survey of the Incarcerated
- The SOM Institute Cumulative Dataset
- World Values Survey
- American Trends Panel Datasets
- British Household Panel Survey
- Survey of Income and Program Participation
- Cooperative Congressional Election Study
- German Socio-Economic Panel
- Longitudinal Internet Studies for the Social sciences
- Norwegian Citizen Panel
- Short-term Campaign Panel
- Swiss Household Panel
- The American Panel Survey
- Understanding Society
- European Mood
- Executive Approval Database
- Median Voter
- Comparative Agendas Project: Public Opinion & Interest Groups
- Policy Ideology in Europe
- Public Policy Mood
- State-level climate concern
- The 'Most Important Problem' Dataset
- The American Ideology Project
- Worlds of Journalism
- Europe Elects
- FiveThirtyEight's Pollster Ratings
- FiveThirtyEight polls
- Irish Polling Indicator
- PollBase
- Poll of Polls
- Polls and the Timeline of Elections
- Public support for political parties in Denmark
- SwedishPolls
- Comparative Constitutions Project
- Constitutional Court of Turkey Justice Decisions Dataset
- Judicial Checks and Balances
- Religion and State Project Constitutions Dataset
- ACLP Political and Economic Database
- Comparative Political Data Set
- Congressional Whip Count Database
- Database of Political Institutions
- Disclosure by Politicians
- Electoral Law Indicators
- Evolution of European Union Law
- German Federal Courts Dataset
- Institutional Characteristics of Trade Unions, Wage Setting, State Intervention and Social Pacts
- Institutional Quality Dataset
- Institutions and Elections Project
- Judicial Review of Congress Database
- Legislative production in the EU, 1967-2012
- Rule of Law Index
- The Centre for European Policy Studies EurLex dataset
- The Political Constraint Index
- U.S. District Court Database
- Age, gender and profession of parliamentarians
- Autocratic Ruling Parties Dataset
- Bundestag Roll Call Vote Data
- Chapel Hill Expert Survey
- CMP Government Positions Data
- Commissioners of the European Union
- Comparative Agendas Project
- Comparative Parties Data Set
- EPRG MEP Surveys
- Ethnonationalism in Party Competition
- European Election Study: Euromanifesto
- Every Politician
- Global Party Survey
- Immigration in Party Manifestos
- Issue ownership
- Local Candidate Dataset
- Manifesto Project Main Dataset (Party Preferences)
- Members and Activists of Political Parties
- MPs additional income
- New Parties and Party System Innovation in Western Europe since 1945
- Norwegian Parliamentary Elections, 1906-2017
- ParlGov: Parties
- Parties, Governments and Legislatures Dataset
- Party Facts
- Party Policy in Modern Democracies
- Political Party Database
- [Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey][http://poppa-data.eu/]
- Private Members' Bills in the UK House of Commons
- Regional Manifestos Project
- Roll Call Votes in the European Parliament
- Seats and Votes, 1950-1995
- State Legislator Shor-McCarty Ideology Data
- The Comparative Legislators Database
- The PopuList
- The Reed-Smith Japanese House of Representatives Elections Dataset
- Women in National Parliaments
- A Lexicial Index of Electoral Democracy
- Authoritarian Regimes Dataset
- Autocracies of the World
- Autocratic Regime Data
- Boix-Miller-Rosato (BMR) dichotomous coding of democracy, 1800-2010
- Civil Liberty Dataset
- Democracy/Autocracy Data Set
- Democracy Barometer
- Democracy Crossnational Data
- Democratic Accountability and Citizen-Politician Linkages
- Democratic Diffusion
- Electoral Systems and the Personal Vote
- Global State of Democracy
- Political Regimes of the World
- Polity IV Project: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions
- Unified Democracy Scores
- Vanhanen's index of democracy
- Varieties of Democracy
- Administrative Capacities
- Corruption Perceptions Index
- Democratic Innovations Data
- European Union Indicators
- Global Integrity Report
- Governance Challenges Indicators
- Ibrahim Index of African Governance
- Infrastructure Governance Indicators
- Quality of Government
- Relative Political Capacity Dataset
- Territorial Self-Governance Dataset
- Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators
- Worldwide Governance Indicators
- A millennium of macroeconomic data
- Bank for International Settlements
- Barro-Ursua Macroeconomic Data
- Chinn-Ito Index
- Comparative Income Taxation Database
- Comparative Independent Fiscal Institutions
- COVID-19 Economic Stimulus Index
- Culture of cooperation and inclusive political institutions
- Design of Trade Agreements Database
- Economic Freedom of the World
- European Central Bank: Speeches data
- European Central Bank: Statistical Data Warehouse
- Expanded Trade and GDP Data
- Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database
- Financial Development and Structure Dataset
- Financing the State
- Fiscal Crisis Episodes
- Global Debt Database
- Global State Revenues and Expenditures
- Imperial Roots of Global Trade
- Interwar Debt
- Jordà-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database
- Long-Term Productivity Database
- Maddison Project Database
- National Accounts Main Aggregates Database
- Rosés-Wolf database on regional GDP
- Standardized World Income Inequality Database
- Systemic Banking Crises Database
- Total Economy Database
- Union Centralization among Advanced Industrial Societies
- World Economic Outlook
- World Income Inequality Database
- World Wealth and Income Database
- Constituency-Level Elections Archive
- Democratic Electoral Systems
- Danish General Election Results
- Database on Ideology, Money in Politics, and Elections
- Eggers and Spirling British Political Development database
- Electoral Volatility and its internal components in Western Europe
- Electoral Volatility in the European Parliament elections
- European Election Database
- Free and Fair Elections Database
- Global Elections Database
- Local Government Dataset
- National Elections Across Democracy and Autocracy
- NCSL Ballot Measures
- Negative Campaigning Comparative Expert Survey
- Net Volatility in Western Europe
- ParlGov: Elections
- Perceptions of Electoral Integrity
- Political Conflict and Democracy: Election Campaigns
- Slovak Election Data Project
- U.S. Polling Places
- UK Election Statistics
- US Presidential Elections
- Voter Turnout Database
- AidData
- Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions
- Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project
- Authoritarian Ruling Elites Database
- Certificates of Competency for Nominees to be Chiefs of Mission
- Chance-Corrected Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity
- Change in Source of Leader Support
- Conflict Catalog
- Correlates of War
- Counter Trafficking Data Collaborative
- Coups in the World
- Cross-Cutting Cleavage Dataset
- De Facto States in International Politics
- Disaggregated Military Expenditure
- Domestic Terrorist Victims dataset
- Electoral Contention and Violence
- Forcibly Displaced Populations
- Foreign Fighter Observation Set
- Foundations of Rebel Group Emergence
- Fragile States Index
- From Empire to Nation-State
- Genocides and Politicides events
- Gibler-Miller-Little Militarized Interstate Dispute
- Girl Child Soldier Dataset
- Global Terrorism Database
- Global Transitional Justice Dataset
- High Casualty Terrorist Bombings
- Historical terrorist groups
- Historical Varieties of Democracy
- Ill-Treatment and Torture
- Implementation of Pacts
- International Military Intervention
- International Peace Institute Peacekeeping Database
- International Political Economy Data Resource
- Konstanz One-Sided Violence Event Dataset
- Lankina Russian Protest-Event Dataset
- Latent Human Rights Protection Scores
- Leaders’ Willingness to Use Force
- Major Episodes of Political Violence
- Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database
- Mass Mobilization Protest Data
- Measuring the Impacts of Colonialism
- Memberships in Conventional Intergovernmental Organizations
- Militant Group Electoral Participation Dataset
- Militarized Compellent Threats
- Minorities at Risk
- Nonviolent & Violent Campaigns and Outcomes
- Nuclear Production Capabilities Dataset
- Peace Accords Matrix Implementation
- Peace Agreement Database
- Peacekeeping and the Peacekept
- Police Reforms in Peace Agreements
- Political Terror Scale
- Power-Sharing Event Dataset
- Quantified Political Relationships
- Rebel Contraband Dataset
- Reputation of Terror Groups
- Revolutionary Leaders and Revolutions
- Right-Wing Terrorism and Violence
- Rising Powers Diplomatic Network
- Rulers, Elections, and Irregular Governance
- Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict
- Social Conflict Analysis Database
- State Failure Problem Set
- State Fragility Index
- State Security Forces dataset
- Suicide Attack Database
- Temporally Extended, Regular, Reproducible International Event Records
- Terrorism in Western Europe: Events Data
- Terrorist and Insurgent Organization Social Services
- The Affinity of Nations: Similarity of State Voting Positions in the UNGA
- The Cease-Fires Data Set
- The CIRI Human Rights Dataset
- The Continent of International Law
- The Dyadic Cyber Incident and Dispute Data
- The Logic of Political Survival
- The UN Security Council Debates
- Threat and Imposition of Sanctions
- UCDP Peacemakers at Risk
- UN Targeted Sanctions
- United Nations General Assembly Voting Data
- United Nations General Debate Corpus
- United Nations Security Council membership
- Uppsala Conflict Data Program
- Water-Related Intrastate Conflict and Cooperation
- Women's Participation in NATO Forces and Operations
- Comparative Agendas Project: Media
- European Election Study: Media Study
- Political Advertisements from Facebook
- Global Media Freedom Dataset
- Media System Freedom
- Newspaper presidential endorsements
- Political TV Ad Archive
- Snap Political Ads Library
- Wesleyan Media Project: Media Advertising
- World Press Freedom Index
- Abortion Law Database
- Bilateral Labor Agreements Dataset
- Canadian Government Expenditures
- Citizenship Regime Inclusiveness Index
- Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset
- Comparative Welfare States Data Set
- Correlates of State Policy
- fRDB-IZA Social Reforms Database
- Global Visa Cost Dataset
- Government Revenue Dataset
- Immigration Policies in Comparison
- Infrastructure Database
- Multiculturalism Policies in Contemporary Democracies
- Public Plans Database
- Social Citizenship Indicator Program
- Social Assistance, Politics, and Institutions database
- Social Security Database
- State Policy Innovation and Diffusion
- Studying Immigrant Policy One Law at a Time
- Tax Introduction Database
- The European pension politics dataset
- The Regulation of Labor
- An Automated Database of the European Parliament
- Archigos: A Data Base on Leaders 1875-2004
- Australian Candidate Study
- Comparative Candidates Survey
- European Election Study: Elite Study
- EUSpeech
- German Political Speeches Corpus and Visualization
- Global Populism Database
- Hansard Speeches and Sentiment
- Leader Experience and Attribute Descriptions
- Parliamentary Speeches in Ireland
- Portuguese Candidates Survey
- Portuguese MPs Survey
- Aqueduct
- Climate Action Tracker
- Climate change in the contiguous United States
- Climate Policy Database
- Energy Policy Tracker
- Environmental Performance Index
- Global Oil & Gas Features Database
- Global Power Plant Database
- International Environmental Agreements Database
- TRade & ENvironment Database
- World Database on Protected Areas
- Anti-Refugee Violence and Social Unrest in Germany
- Cohort Fertility and Education Database
- Campaign Finance Law Across the Nation
- Comparative dataset on socio-cultural, political and legal indicators
- Database of Masculine and Feminine Words
- Decision-making in the European Union
- Ethnic Power Relations
- European Protest and Coercion Data
- Eurostat
- Extended State History Index
- Global Dual Citizenship Database
- Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization
- Human Capital Index
- Incarceration Trends Dataset
- KOF Globalization Index
- Missing Migrants Project
- Moral Machine
- Political Conflict and Democracy: Contentious Episodes
- Political Conflict and Democracy: Protest Events
- Political Conflict and Democracy: Public Debates
- Protest events
- Protest events in the Federal Republic of Germany
- Raw data from online personality tests
- Regional Authority Index
- Religion Adherence Data
- Serious Nuclear and Radiological Incidents
- State Antiquity Index
- State Networks
- Sustainable Society Index
- Annotated Database Bibliography (ADBB) of Datasets on Institutions and Conflict in Divided Societies
- Awesome Public Datasets
- Bank for International Settlements
- Charles Stewart's Congressional Data Page
- Data Is Plural — Structured Archive (hundreds of datasets, political and non-political)
- Data Resources for Studies in Comparative Politics
- Datasets and open source projects related to Climate Change
- Datasets for development economists
- Datasets for empirical development economists
- Datasets with text data for use in Natural Language Processing
- Economic Data freely available online
- Economic databases
- European Representative Democracy Data Archive
- Google Dataset Search
- ILOSTAT
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
- International IDEA
- International Monetary Fund
- Large datasets for social science, genomics and medicine
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research: Online Databases
- MIT Election Data and Science Lab
- Norwegian Centre for Research Data: Data Services
- Open datasets
- Oxford Supertracker: The Global Directory for COVID Policy Trackers
- Oxford Supertracker: The Global Directory for COVID Surveys
- Paul Hensel's International Relations Data Site
- Political Science Data
- Team Populism
- Terrorism Events Data: An Inventory of Databases and Data Sets, 1968-2017
- The MacroDataGuide
- Quantitative Social Science Data
For help and dataset suggestions, thanks to Daniel Bischof, Jon H. Fiva, Martijn Schoonvelde, Shiro Kuriwaki, Niclas Darville, Alexey Gridnev, Anne-Kathrin Kreft, Feodor Snagovsky, Joe Noonan, Michael Strebel, Felix Haass, Simon Straubinger, Bjørn Høyland and Agnar Freyr Helgason.