Political Science

AidData is a comprehensive resource for students and professors researching foreign aid and international development.

The goal of the American Presidency Project is to be recognized as the authoritative, non-partisan on-line source for presidential public documents. By providing easy access to useful information, we seek to promote a more informed citizenry of the United States, high quality scholarly and media analysis, and a better understanding of American democracy throughout the world.

U. S. government gateway to statistics from over 100 federal agencies.

​​​For more than four decades, the General Social Survey (GSS) has studied the growing complexity of American society. It is the only full-probability, personal-interview survey designed to monitor changes in both social characteristics and attitudes currently being conducted in the United States.

The Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) is a leader in the development, implementation, and analysis of public opinion surveys. Founded by Dr. Mitchell Seligson over two decades ago, its principal focus is on citizens and democracy in Latin America.

Latinobarómetro is an annual public opinion survey that involves some 20,000 interviews in 18 Latin American countries, representing more than 600 million inhabitants.

From Britannica Group. Presents sourced pros and cons of debatable issues, as well as a host of reference information relevant to those issues, thoroughly researched and compiled by our research staff and editors.

RAND publications cover a wide variety of policy topics. All reports are freely available online as .pdf's.

SDA is a set of programs for the documentation and Web-based analysis of survey data.

Statistics collected by the Census Department:
American Community Survey
American Housing Survey
Annual Surveys of Governments
Census of Governments
Annual Economic Surveys
Decennial Census
Economic Census
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Tabulation
Population Estimates Program
Puerto Rico Community Survey

Statistical data from the United Nations. Coverage includes areas such as gender, health, human development, trade, tourism, information communications technology, energy, education, and crime. Data is available by country as well as topic.

Statistical data from over 200 countries. Topics include economics, health, energy, debt, infrastructure, development, poverty, labor, and social issues. Multiple formats available.

Welcome To The Complete World Development Report Online. Here you will find every page of every World Development Report published by the World Bank since the first report was released in 1978. Use the following tools to quickly and easily search content across, within, and related to WDRs:
Browse by Title - find any report by its title and year.
Browse by Topic - find reports pertaining to a specific development topic, ranging from agriculture, education, and the environment to infrastructure, trade and poverty reduction.
World Bank Data - access a variety of World Bank datasets, including the World Development Indicators, via data.worldbank.org
Regions - refer to this guide for an overview of how the World Bank categorizes countries by region and income group
Related Content - access World Development Report background papers going back to 2005.
Searching - use a simple Search to carry out a full-text search across all reports; use the Advanced Search option t

WorldPublicOpinion.org is an international collaborative project whose aim is to give voice to public opinion around the world on international issues. As the world becomes increasingly integrated, problems have become increasingly global, pointing to a greater need for understanding between nations and for elucidating global norms. With the growth of democracy in the world, public opinion has come to play a greater role in the foreign policy process. WorldPublicOpinion.org seeks to reveal the values and views of publics in specific nations around the world as well as global patterns of world public opinion.