Legislative Research
Charles Stewart’s
Congressional Data Page
This up-to-date web site includes detailed information on congressional
roll call votes and committee assignments.
Keith Poole’s NOMINATE
Data
This page provides the data used by Poole and Rosenthal in their spatial
modeling studies. NOMINATE scores for members of the 1st through
the 109th Congresses are available.
Project
Vote Smart
Biographies,
issue positions, and interest group ratings for federal and state officeholders
and candidates throughout the U.S. These folks run the famous National
Political Awareness Test (NPAT) and publish the results for all the candidates
who respond to it.
Smart
Voter
The
League of Women Voters of California's web service providing detailed
information -- vote shares, endorsements, biographies, platforms -- on
candidates for federal, state, and local office.
Back to top
Electoral Behavior
Leip's
Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections
If you need presidential elections data, this is the site for you. David
Leip makes votes and turnout available by state, and even (for a fee) by
county.
Record
of American Democracy, 1984-1990 (ROAD)
by Gary King et al.
This web site contains electoral and demographic information for the
U.S. down to precinct level. It also includes data for GIS imaging.
Gary King’s Data Collection
This page includes links to the ROAD project and also provides a variety
of datasets on electoral models and spatial modeling.
Federal Elections Commission:
Federal Elections and Voting Statistics
This is fairly comprehensive collection of electoral data. This
page includes information on voter turnout in state and federal elections
since 1960, and has recent state level data on presidential and congressional
elections, including primaries.
Maps
of County-Level Presidential Election Returns, 1840-1984
Professor Scott James at UCLA put together these maps using History
Machine, a fairly simple Windows-based GIS program.
Back to top
Polling and Survey
Research
ICPSR
Data on Mass Political Behavior and Attitudes
This site provides detailed descriptions of ICPSR datasets on election
results, mass public opinion, and political history for the U.S. and many
other nations.
Pollster.com
The
brainchild of pollster Mark Blumenthal and political scientist Charles
Franklin. A great, great resource.
PollingReport.com
A
nice, nonpartisan compendium of recent polls on candidates and issues.
National
Center for Public Policy Research, Index of Historical Documents
This is a rather comprehensive collection of political texts, from
the Magna Carta to the U.S. Constitution to JFK’s inaugural address.
The Center is a rather conservative group, which is why modern Republicans
(Goldwater, Reagan, Gingrich) are somewhat over represented in this index.
Back to top
Economics and
Demographics
U.S. Bureau
of Economic Analysis
This page includes current and historical U.S. economic indicators.
Large datasets can be downloaded if necessary, but one can also look as
small sets of tables describing specific indicators. The page provides
access to the up-to-date Survey of Current Business.
United Nations Statistics
Division
This web site emphasizes vital population indicators while providing
some information on world economies and political structures.
Statistical
Abstract of the United States
The U.S. Census operates this service, which allows one to view any
table in recent Statistical Abstracts in PDF file format.
Back to top
