Pew research center
The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world.
Political Science
Political support in Canada
This project was undertaken to study the political attitudes and behavior of the Canadian electorate. Respondents were queried about their political party preferences and were asked to identify the most important election issues.
Roper social and political trends, 1973-1994
The dataset includes selected items from 207 public opinion surveys conducted as part of the Roper Reports series by the Roper Organization or its successor organization RoperASW between 1973 and 1994. More than 400,000 unique respondents are included in this cumulative file.
World Values Survey
The World Values Survey (WVS) is a global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life. The survey, which started in 1981, seeks to use the most rigorous, high-quality research designs in each country.
Government finance statistics (GFS)
Contains detailed data on revenue, grants, expense, transactions in assets and liabilities, and stocks of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors.
Cross-National Time Series Data Archive, 1815-2013. 2014 ed.
The Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive was a product of the State University of New York (Binghamton), launched in the fall of 1968 by Arthur S. Banks under the aegis of the University's Center for Comparative Political Research (subsequently the Center for Social Analysis).
Geographic Distribution of Financial Flows to Aid Recipients (DAC/GEO), 1960-1998.
This electronic publication originates from the OECD annual publication entitled Geographic Distribution of Financial Flows to Aid Recipients. The publication began in 1977, under the title Geographic Distribution of Financial Flows to Developing Countries.
United Nations statistical yearbook, 1999
The Statistical Yearbook provides systematic information on a wide range of social and economic issues that are of concern in the United Nations system and among the governments and peoples of the world.
Comparative Welfare States Dataset, 2014 ed.
The data contained in this data set were collected by a project entitled "Comparative Welfare States in the 21st Century" directed by David Brady, Evelyne Huber, and John D. Stephens.
World income inequality database (WIID)
The UNU-WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID) collects and stores information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries.