| General Resources |
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Hollis Catalogue
- Access to further research
resources.
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Social Science Citation Index
Perhaps THE most useful electronic database to identify
relevant literature for your essays. Needs Harvard sign-in. |
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Statistical Resources on the
Web/Political Science
- University of Michigan list of
links in political science.
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Shared global
dataset
For those in the class that want a cross-national dataset and
codebook for analysis. |
| International resources |
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ACE Project
- The Administration and Cost of
Elections project
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CIA World Fact-book
- Good reference guide to the basics
about specific countries
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Elections around the World
- Excellent resource for election
results and parties in all nations worldwide.
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Europa
- The European Union website
including access to the Eurobarometer public opinion surveys in
Western, Central and Eastern Europe.
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Freedom in the World: Freedom House
- Annual evaluations of the state of
democracy around the world. See also for the annual report on
press freedom.
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Human Rights Watch
- Human Rights watchdog Group
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International Foundation for Electoral
Systems
- Excellent resource for elections
including the electoral systems and recent results.
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International IDEA
- International IDEA hosts
information about electoral systems, women and politics, voter
turnout and deeprooted ethnic conflict, among other topics.
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MCA
Millennium Challenge Account |
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National Endowment for Democracy
The NED provides a research guide with
links to organizations concerned with the following:
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OECD
- Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development. See their annual report and
statistical resources for the most affluent states worldwide.
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Transparency International
- The organization that tracks
corruption worldwide with an annual report
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United National Development Program
- See especially for the UNDP World
Development Report
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United Nations
- The U.N. site provides basic
information on the United Nations and its programs and links to
some full text documents. It is also a good source for identifying
useful print U.N. documents.
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World Bank
- The latest
World Development Report
and links to multiple reports and socioeconomic indicators
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- For
access to the latest online CDRom database at the
- Kennedy
School library read instructions here
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- For the
Governance indicators by Kaufmann see here
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Survey Data Resources |
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Harvard-MIT Data Center
- THE main archive for locating and
downloading machine-readable datasets at Harvard. Needs Harvard
login (right top corner) to the Virtual Data Center for
downloadable datasets.
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Harvard Library
Numeric Data Services
If you can't locate the data you want, try asking the data
librarians at Harvard. There is an
online
request form here.
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Global Barometer Surveys
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Links to the global barometer
surveys in Africa, East Asia, New Europe and Latinobaometro.
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World Values Survey
1981-2001
The most recent wave (1999-2001) will be released in March
2004. The first three waves are downloadable from the
Harvard Data Center. This site describes the contents,
publications, and provides the codebook.
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International Social Survey Program (ISSP) (1985-2003)
This annual thematic survey monitors social attitudes and
values in a survey consortium of more than 20 nations. The
central archive for this program is at
Cologne but data
can
also be downloaded from the
Harvard-MIT Data
Center.
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European
Social Survey (ESS) 2002
This is a new 22-nation survey of social and political
attitudes, with all documentation and data best downloaded
from the Norwegian Data Archive
(you need to register).
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ICPSR Web Site
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Access to an extensive archive of
machine-readable datasets hosted at the University of Michigan.
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Europa
- The European Union website
including access to the Eurobarometer public opinion surveys in
Western, Central and Eastern Europe.
The central archive at
Cologne maintains a useful searchable
keyword index and the data can be downloaded from the
Harvard-MIT Data
Center
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The
Pew Research Center for People and the Press
An excellent resource for recent surveys of American social
and political attitudes, plus an archive of downloadable
survey datasets (except for most recent 6 months). Some
global surveys as well.
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Roper Center for Public Opinion
Research
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Excellent searchable archive of
public opinion survey questions and results, but mainly confined
to United States and Latin America
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| Journal Resources |
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JSTOR
- Access to full text articles in
many political science journals
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Proceedings Online
- All the conference papers from the
annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
with searchable index to the latest research.
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