Library Numeric Data in Electronic Resources
Find numeric data on political science from your library.
The Almanac of American Politics
This site includes profiles of every member of Congress and governor as well as in-depth and up-to-date narrative profiles of all 50 states and 435 House districts. Also included are detailed Congressional voting records, hard-to-find census data, current state district maps and a preview of the 2008 elections. It also contains up-to-date information on special election results, committee changes, election forecasts and primary results. It is only available to MSU faculty, staff, and students. We also have the book in print format.
American National Election Studies (ANES)
The American National Election Studies (ANES) produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists who want to better understand the theoretical and empirical foundations of national election outcomes.
American Public Opinion and United States Foreign Policy Series
Available through ICPSR, this series of quadrennial studies was designed to investigate the opinions and attitudes of the general public and a select group of opinion leaders (or elites) on matters relating to United States foreign policy and to define the parameters of public opinion within which decision-makers must operate.
Capturing campaign dynamics, 2000 and 2004 : the national Annenberg election survey / Daniel Romer ... [et al.].
This book is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing NAES codebooks and data, featuring more than 200,000 interviews with adults living in the U.S.
Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA)
COPA conducts in-depth nationwide polls, focus groups, and interviews to get a better understanding of the American public attitudes like on health care and education.
Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES)
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) is a collaborative program of cross-national research among election studies conducted in over fifty states. he CSES is composed of three tightly linked parts: First, a common module of public opinion survey questions is included in each participant country's post-election study. These "micro" level data include vote choice, candidate and party evaluations, current and retrospective economic evaluations, evaluation of the electoral system itself, in addition to standardized sociodemographic measures. Second, district level data are reported for each respondent, including electoral returns, turnout, and the number of candidates. Finally, system or "macro" level data report aggregate electoral returns, electoral rules and formulas, and regime characteristics. This design allows researchers to conduct cross-level, as well as cross-national analyses, addressing the effects of electoral institutions on citizens' attitudes and behavior, the presence and nature of social and political cleavages, and the evaluation of democratic institutions across different political regimes.
Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
While full access must be purchased, this web site provides a lot of basic information for free. It includes Election Results, polls, and predictions, election information like electroral college, election dates, and more. The information is very current.
Federal Election Commission
This web site gives data on campaign finance by candidates, groups, and parties.
Guide to public opinion poll Web sites: Polling data from around the world
This web site gives a list of opinion poll web sites from the US and across the globe.
ICPSR
ICPSR has a number of election series including for the United States, Canada, and Britian. For example, do a search for election. There are also a number of results for voting, views, political events, congressional biographies, and candidates.
National Race and Politics Survey, 1991
The 1991 National Race and Politics Survey was a nationwide random-digit telephone survey that included many questions related to racial attitudes and political orientation.
Pew Hispanic Center
Pew Hispanic Center is a nonpartisan research organization supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Its mission is to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the entire nation. The Center focuses on eight key subject areas: Demography, Economics, Education, Identity, Immigration, Labor, Politics, and Remittances.
Polity IV Project: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions, 1800 - 2004
Polity IV contains coded annual information on regime and authority characteristics for all independent states (with greater than 500,000 total population) in the global state system and covers the years 1800-2004.
State of the First Amendment [1997 - 2005]
The State of the First Amendment survey collects data on Americans' attitudes towards First Amendment issues, including freedom of expression and tolerance for art that may be offensive to others. The survey is conducted annually (since 1997, except for 1998)
State Politics and Policy Quarterly -- Data Resource
This site provides data on more than 50 variables under the topics of state data, population and vital statistics, politics, education, crime, and business and economy.
World Public Opinion.org
The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) launched WorldPublicOpinion.org (WPO) in January 2006 to provide a source of in-depth information and analysis on public opinion from around the world on international issues.
