The single largest data archive in the United States for political sciecne data, housed at the University of Michigan.
A collection of data resources primarily related to the study of international relations.
EUGene serves as a data management tool for creating data sets for use in the quantitative analysis of international relations; with the country-year, directed-dyad-year, non-directed-dyad-year, and directed-dispute-dyad-year as the unit of analysis.
Singer, J. David, and Melvin Small. CORRELATES OF WAR PROJECT: INTERNATIONAL AND CIVIL WAR DATA, 1816-1992. (updated through 1992)
Jaggers, Keith and Ted Robert Gurr. 2000. POLITY IV: Regime Change and Political Authority, 1800-1999. An ongoing project to measure polity characteristics for just about every country in the international system.
This scaled events data can be used to calculate the volume and intensity of political conflict and cooperation within the domestic polity. IPI gives scholars the ability to track interactions among social groups and between the state and social groups.
The project contains systematic data about more than 400 crises, thirty-one protracted conflicts and almost 900 state participants.
This project is the assembly of a dataset of all recorded violent conflicts in the world since 1400 AD in which more than 32 people were killed. On 28 October 1999 the dataset contained 3,213 violent conflicts.
Unrelated to the Correlates of War at the University of Michigan, ICOW collects a variety of data in different sets concerning international organization membership, explicit claims involving cross-border freshwater resources such as rivers or lakes, maritime claims, focusing on explicit claims involving fishing rights, exclusive economic zones, and similar topics, regime-based claims, and a variety of other issues.
Daniel M. Jones, Stuart A. Bremer and J. David Singer (1996) ."Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1816-1992: Rationale, Coding Rules, and Empirical Patterns." Conflict Management and Peace Science, 15(2): 163:213. This project compiles data on conflicts short of war that involve threats, overt displays, and uses of force. The paper cited above explains the data and coding procedures.
The Kansas Event Data System uses automated coding of English-language news reports to generate political event data.
Kathy Barbieri’s International Trade data contains both total trade and bilateral trade data for COW states from 1870-1992.
Includes assorted links to political data from commercial, publicly archived, and government sources.
Links a host of national data archives and other sources together in one interactive map.