This page provides a couple of links to databases and other resources that are potentially useful for your research papers.
Quality of government institute:
This is clearly my favorite. There is a lot of cross-sectional, as well as time-series data available here on many indicators with potential links to our course questions.
http://qog.pol.gu.se
Eurostat:
Another great website with a lot of data on very diverse questions, ranging from demographics, household budgets to public opinion. It has, moreover a couple very nice and easy to use applications which allow for the simple creation of data-based graphs, maps or tables.
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en
Polity IV data:
The most widely used democracy indicator, along with a lot of other useful indicators.
http://www.systemicpeace.org/polity/polity4.htm
Pippa Norris:
Probably some of the best textbooks or reference books on most of the major questions we deal with in this course. And she offers most of them for free on her website. There are also regularly updated datasets.
https://sites.google.com/site/pippanorris3/
Degrees of democracy:
This is the companion website to Soroka and Wlezien's excellent work on the opinion-policy link. A lot of papers and data available
http://degreesofdemocracy.net/
George Tsebelis original veto player data:
Not necessarily the most intuitive coding of veto players, but definitely the most widely used one.
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/tsebelis/data
Margit Tavits:
Another veto player researcher. Quite a few papers, but no replication data, unfortunately.
http://pages.wustl.edu/tavits/publications
Please feel to email me about other potentially interesting sources. I will update this list as we go on.
