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Stats DataFinder - Government - Cross-National Data (9 items)
 
Data Gov
A governance indicators database from the Interamerican Development Bank. International in scope, covers decentralization, rule of law, transparency, democracy, markets, public administration, society.
Free The World.com (Economic Freedom Network)
Includes Economic Freedom of the World, annual reports, 1997-2005; Economic Freedom of North America data sets, 2002, 2004-2005; Economic Freedom of the Arab World, 2005. Data sets in Excel. From the Fraser Institute in Vancouver. Keyword: economic freedom, countries, statistics, government
Governance & Anti-Corruption (World Bank)
Links to various data sets (use the Data tab): Aggregate governance indicators, Bank regulation and supervision, Business environment and enterprise performance, Cross-national data on government and wages, Fiscal decentralization indicators, and more. Keyword: countries, statistics, government, business, economics.
Index of Economic Freedom (Heritage Foundation)
Includes Indexes from 2000-present; book chapters in .PDF format, tables in Excel; an Economic Freedom Map. Keyword: economic freedom, form of government, statistics, government
Paul Hensel's International Relations Data Site
A large collection of international data in these categories: General, Conflict Cooperation, Economic, Environment, Political, Social, and U.S. Data is available in various formats. From Paul Hensel, Department of Political Science, Florida State University. Keyword: international statistics, countries, data.
Pippa Norris Data (JFK School of Government, Harvard University)
Includes the Democracy Indicators Cross-national Time-Series Dataset, the Shared Global Indicators Cross-national Database, the British Parliamentary Constituency database, 1992-2005, the Freedom House Classification of Democracies 1983-1999 and more. Keyword: countries, statistics, government, cross-national
Polity IV Project: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions, 1800-2003
"Polity IV contains coded annual information on regime and authority characteristics for all independent states (with greater than 500,000 total population) in the global state system and covers the years 1800-2003." Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland. Keyword: countries, government, form of government
Research Unit on Comparative and European Politics (University of Bern)
Comparative Political Data Set I: 23 OECD countries, 1960-2003; Data Set II: 28 post-Communist countries, 1989-2004. Keyword: countries, statistics, government, politics, form of government
State, Economy, and Society in Western Europe, 1815-1975
A data handbook in two volumes: (1) The growth of mass democracies and welfare states; (2) The growth of industrial societies and capitalist economies. Keyword: countries, statistics, government, form of government, economics
 

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