Data & Statistics: Civil Society, Politics & Regimes

To serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists, the ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.

GovTrack shows the outcome of all recorded votes on the Senate floor and House floor. It does not include votes in committee.

Includes data on campaign contributions to American politicians.

Founded in 1941 to rally policymakers and a broadly isolationist American public around the fight against Nazi Germany, and to raise awareness of the fascist threat to American security and values. Freedom House is an independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom and democracy around the world. They publish an annual "Freedom in the World" report that assesses the state of freedom in various countries.

An annual ranking of 110 countries, according to a variety of factors including wealth, economic growth, personal wellbeing, governance, and quality of life.

The Polity5 Project continues the Polity research tradition of coding authority characteristics of states in the world system for purposes of comparative, quantitative analysis. The Polity data includes information only on the institutions of the central government and on political groups acting, or reacting, within the scope of that authority.

Worldwide public opinion survey on corruption. With more than 100 national chapters worldwide and an international secretariat in Berlin, Transparency International works with partners in government, business and civil society to put effective measures in place to tackle corruption.

UNODC collects analyzes and reports data on drug trafficking trends including - arrest, seizures, price and purity of illicit drugs submitted by the Member States through the Annual Reports Questionnaires (ARQ). It also collects and reports data on illicit manufacture of controlled substances including data on clandestine laboratories.
In addition, UNODC collects and reports data on significant individual drug seizures as reported by Member States. and supports Member States in developing capacity to collect internationally comparable data on drug trafficking.
NOTE: Includes extensive data on drug trafficking and pricing, which may be helpful for researchers trying to see how the drug trade is tied to conflict.

The V-Dem project distinguishes between five high-level principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian, and collects data to measure these principles.

Aggregate and individual governance indicators for 213 economies over the period 1996-2009, for six dimensions of governance: Voice and Accountability; Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism; Government Effectiveness; Regulatory Quality; Rule of Law; Control of Corruption.

The Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) is a repository of detailed election results at the constituency level for lower house legislative elections from around the world. Our motivation is to preserve and consolidate these valuable data in one comprehensive and reliable resource that is ready for analysis and publicly available at no cost. This public good is expected to be of use to a range of audiences for research, education, and policy-making.

Includes electoral results at the provincial as well as the national level, as well as links to articles.

The Global Elections Database (formerly known as the Constituency-Level Elections Dataset, 2007) provides information on the results of both national and subnational elections around the world.The data are based on countries' official election results and have been amassed from various government institutions.

ElectionGuide is provided by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), an international nonprofit dedicated to strengthening electoral democracy.

Interactive database with results of Pew Global Attitudes surveys.

A non-partisan resource for trends in American public opinion, contains links to many public-opinion polls conducted by the nationally prominent Quinnipiac University Polling Institute and other American media outlets.

A global network of social scientists studying changing values and their impact on social and political life. The WVS consists of nationally representative surveys conducted in almost 100 countries which contain almost 90 percent of the world’s population, using a common questionnaire.