Datasets

Included with course materials:

• Nationscape surveys (first 10 waves)
• Spending, debt, and fiscal deficits (IMF Fiscal Monitor, Apr. 2023)
• Inflation data (WDI)
• Health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE, 2019). Global Burden of Disease Study. Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
• COVID severity (daily data).
• Surveys about conspiracy thinking and populism (Uscinski et al. 2021 dataverse files, codebooks and question wording)
• Articles about the economy from The Guardian (obtained via the free API).
• A dataset of political science article abstracts for practicing descriptive text analysis (credit: Benjamin Guinaudeau).

Utilities

• OECD country codes

Selected public datasets (potential options for students’ projects)

legislatoR: Interface to the Comparative Legislators Database

ParlEE plenary speeches V3 data set: Annotated full-text of 10 million sentence-level plenary speeches of six EU legislative chambers

Social & Moral Psychology of COVID-19

Eurobarometer: A harmonized dataset

European Values Study

MediaCloud

useNews: Document-feature matrices of news articles (2019-20)

CC-News: 708,241 English language news articles published between Jan 2017 and December 2019.

Cumulative CES Common Content

CCES2020 - NYU module (includes questions on social media use, political behaviors and personality traits).