Chapter 8 Additional Resources

Examples of comparative data sets used in political science research:

• Marshall, Monty G. 2020. Polity5: Regime Authority Characteristics and Transitions Datasets. N.p.: Center for Systemic Peace. http://www.systemicpeace.org/inscrdata.html

Data on regime change in 167 countries.

• The Correlates of War Project. http://www.correlatesofwar.org/

Data on war, military expenditures, and territorial changes.

• The Quality of Government (QoG) Institute Data Sets.

https://www.gu.se/en/quality-government/qog-data

Data sets on quality of government indicators.

• Union of International Associations, ed. 2020. Yearbook of International Organizations: Online. 16th online ed. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff. http://www.uia.org/yearbook

Data on international organizations from 300 countries and territories; includes information on structure, relations, and activities.

• World Bank. 2020. World Development Indicators. Washington, DC: World Bank.

http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators

Socio-economic development indicators compiled from official sources.