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Chapter 1
Global indicators of democracy: The Freedom House Index
https://freedomhouse.org/explore-the-map?type=fiw&year=2020
Map of global Freedom Status
Global indicators of democracy: The Polity Project
https://www.systemicpeace.org/polityproject.html
Data from the Polity Project
Global indicators of democracy: The V-DEM Project
Data from the Varieties of Democracy (V-DEM) Project
Suffragettes vs Suffragists: Did violent protest get women the vote?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw0IAFIhVfA
Video by Channel 4 on the history of the fight for women's voting rights
Michael Ignatieff: The Future of Democracy
https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2020/222-michael-ignatieff-on-the-future-of-democracy
Talking Politics podcast
Chapter 2
Deal > Remain > No-deal > Deal: Brexit and the Condorcet paradox
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/brexit-condorcet/
LSE Blog Post by Simon Kaye
Xenophobic voters, or just strategic failure? The anti-immigrant vote inSwitzerland as a Condorcet paradox
ETH Zürich Blog Post by Daniel Bochsler
Social Choice Theory
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/social-choice/
Extensive overview of social choice theory
Why do competitors open their stores next to one another?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jILgxeNBK_8&feature=youtu.be
Video by Jac de Haan
Chapter 3
From Crisis, Opportunity: Europe's Story
Video by the European Council
Current Status of EU Enlargement Negotiations
https://ec.europa.eu/neighbourhood-enlargement/countries/check-current-status_en
Up-to-date status of negotiations with each potential new member state
Treaty of Rome: 60 year anniversary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo6ltcTPaXc
Video by the European Parliament
Marc Weller: Catalonia
https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2017/63-catalonia
Talking Politics Podcast
Chapter 4
Transformation of European Politics: Herbert Kitschelt
Podcast hosted by Tarik Abou-Chadi
Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey
http://poppa-data.eu/index.php/data/
The 2018 Populism and Political Parties Expert Survey (POPPA) dataset measures positions and attitudes of 250 parties on key attributes related to populism, political style, party ideology, and party organization in 28 European countries. The expert survey was fielded between April 2018 and July 2018 to 294 country-experts.
The New Populism
https://www.theguardian.com/world/series/the-new-populism
Feature by the Guardian by journalists and academics working populism.
eupinions: Opinions, moods and preferences of europeancitizens
Data on political preferences across Europe
The Politicization of European Integration by the Radical Right & Radical Left
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WvaTcKlb68
Lecture by Hanspeter Kriesi on the politicization of European integration at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies
Public Opinion Studies in the EU
https://ec.europa.eu/commfrontoffice/publicopinion/index.cfm
Website by the EU Commission on Eurobarometer Research
Transformation of European Politics: Liesbet Hooghe
https://soundcloud.com/user-467531770/episode-14-liesbet-hooghe-the-transnational-cleavage
Podcast hosted by Tarik Abou-Chadi
Chapter 5
Transformation of European Politics: Markus Wagner
https://soundcloud.com/user-467531770/episode-5-markus-wagner-left-authoritarian-voters
Podcast hosted by Tarik Abou-Chadi
Transformation of European Politics: Silja Häusermann
Podcast hosted by Tarik Abou-Chadi
Chapter 6
Electoral Systems around the World
https://www.fairvote.org/research_electoralsystems_world
Overview of electoral systems around the world
ACE Electoral Knowledge Network
Homepage of the Ace Electoral Knowledge Network
How direct democracy has grown over the decades
Information on direct democracy in Switzerland provided by swissinfo
Best Electoral System Test
https://www.idea.int/data-tools/tools/best-election-system-test
Interactive test of electoral systems by IDEA
Chapter 7
Gender Quotas Database
https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/gender-quotas
Database provided by International IDEA
Transformation of European Politics: Tom O'Grady
Podcast hosted by Tarik Abou-Chadi
Transformation of European Politics: Rafaela Dancygier
Podcast hosted by Tarik Abou-Chadi
Parliamentary communication allowances do not increase electoral turnout or affect incumbents’ vote share
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/parliamentary-communication-allowances/
LSE Blog Post by Resul Umit
Data on women in national parliaments
https://data.ipu.org/women-ranking?month=10&year=2020
Database on women in parliament by the Inter-Parliamentary Union
Transformation of European Politics: Phillip Ayoub
Podcast hosted by Tarik Abou-Chadi
Chapter 8
LSE Blog article on the decline of party membership
Blog: Not all European parties are losing members, but those that are tend to be older and more institutionalised
Transformation of European Politics: Catherine De Vries
https://soundcloud.com/user-467531770/catherine-de-vries-political-parties-as-entrepreneurs
Podcast hosted by Tarik Abou-Chadi
The Economist on European Nationalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5HTIgddH68
Video: The Economist: Why Europe's nationalist parties all sound alike
The European Parliament on its political groups
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GY5paQfAaI
Video: European Parliament: The political groups of the European Parliament
Transformation of European Politics: Jane Gingrich
https://soundcloud.com/user-467531770/jane-gingrich-the-transformation-of-the-left
Podcast hosted by Tarik Abou-Chadi
Chapter 9
Quanteda: An R package for managing and analyzing text
Homepage of Quanteda, the preeminent tool for analyzing text in political science.
Talking Politics Podcast on parties challenging the status quo in European countries
https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2020/220-sinn-fin-and-sardines
Podcast: Talking Politics: Sinn Féin and Sardines
How European integration affects blame games in national politics
LSE Blog Post by Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, Lisa Kriegmair and Berthold Rittberger
The PopuList
Data on populist party success
Caterina Froio: CasaPound Italia: Contemporary Extreme-Right Politics
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5KqWdgYbvHtwFP5PNVMW86
Radikaal Podcast
Chapter 10
EU institutions and bodies in brief
https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/institutions-bodies_en
Overview provided by the EU
Parliaments and governments database
Information on parties, elections and cabinets in modern democracies
Transformation of European Politics: Sarah de Lange
https://soundcloud.com/user-467531770/episode-13-sarah-de-lange-the-radical-right-in-government
Podcast hosted by Tarik Abou-Chadi
Election of the President of the European Commission
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2018/630264/EPRS_BRI(2018)630264_EN.pdf
Briefing by the European Parliament
Belgium breaks 16-month deadlock as new government formed
Article on Belgian government by Euractiv
Majority calculator in the European Parliament
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/election-results-2019/en/tools/majority-calculator/
Check who could form a majority in the Parliament
Party Government in Europe Database
https://erdda.org/data-visualisation/
The European Representative Democracy Data Archive
Chapter 11
The WhoGov dataset
Dataset and analysis of members of government worldwide
Integrity Watch - Meetings with Lobbyists by EU Representatives
https://www.integritywatch.eu/
Database of lobby interactions in the EU provided by Transparency International EU
The Ordinary Legislative Procedure
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/olp/en/ordinary-legislative-procedure/overview
Explanation by the European Parliament
VoteWatch Europe
Voting data in European Institutions
EUSpeech v2.0
Dataset of 11,466 speeches by European Leaders
Chapter 12
A Welcoming Europe? Data on Immigration by the European Parliament
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/infographic/welcoming-europe/index_en.html#filter=2015
The European Parliament procvides an interactive overview of when and where immigration to the EU happened in the last 10 years.
Climate Change Laws of the World
Database of climate change legislation around the world by the LSE
Environmental data and maps
https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps
Database of maps and datasets by the European Environment Agency
Health in the European Union – facts and figures
Facts and figures on health by Eurostat
Leaded petrol, acid rain, CFCs: why the green movement can overcome the climate crisis
Podcast by the Guardian
Are women leaders better at fighting the coronavirus?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/26/are-female-leaders-better-fighting-covid-19/
Washington Post Monkey Cage article
Chapter 13
Infringement Cases in the EU
Searchable database of EU infringement cases by the European Commission
Despite positive developments, hurdles to justice remain
Fundamental Rights Report 2019 by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
Chapter 14
Transformation of European Politics: Sara Hobolt
https://soundcloud.com/user-467531770/episode-6-sara-hobolt-brexit-and-euroscepticism
Podcast hosted by Tarik Abou-Chadi
The most important issues facing the UK
Live Tracker of the most important issue in the UK at the moment
Dropping the Democratic Facade
https://freedomhouse.org/report/nations-transit/2020/dropping-democratic-facade
Report by Freedom House on democratic backsliding
Anne Applebaum: Twilight of Democracy
https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/?offset=1595484300783
Talking Politics Podcast
European Politics Online Workshop (EuroPOW) 4 August 2020 on Democratic Backsliding
https://video.syr.edu/media/t/1_2810mgyq
Roundtable on Democratic Backsliding with Anna Grzymala-Busse, Daniel Kelemen and Daniel Ziblatt
Europe's Young People: Europe's Future?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z86h-sCobsQ
Deutsche Welle Documentary
Roberto Foa: Are Young People Losing Faith in Democracy?
https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2020/285-are-young-people-losing-faith-in-democracy
Talking Politics Podcast
Mark Blyth: austerity, bad ideas, "populism," and other perils
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6aUDHY4JF1jT0UVd9jcsJd
Europe's New Political Economy Podcast