Comparative Politics at Rochester

Data

Country Background Notes U.S. Department of State

This site contains up-to-date background notes on all countries of the world. All country background files have a political, historical and economic section and contain the name and address of the current U.S. ambassador.
Country Studies Online Book Archive

This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress as part of the Country Studies/Area Handbook Series sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army between 1986 and 1998. Each study offers a comprehensive description and analysis of the country or region's historical setting, geography, society, economy, political system, and foreign policy. Although slightly outdated they provide solid historical background information.
Richard Kimber’s Area Links

This page contains information on government, politics, parties and elections on a country by country basis. In addition, the site contains alphabetically ordered links to all countries, with map, link to the CIA Factbook and a link to the countries current constitution as PDF.
Comparative Politics Data University of Michigan

This page contains links to important or unusual datasets useful to comparativists. Most links lead to quantitative datasets, but some also lead to detailed qualitative country information. The links are ordered alphabetically.

APSA Section Comparative Politics

Contains links to the most important quantitative datasets and data-host websites (e.g., Harvard’s dataverse) ordered by topics in comparative politics.
Comparative Politics Data University of Michigan

This page contains links to important or unusual datasets useful to comparativists. The links are ordered alphabetically.
Quality of Government Institute

Country level dataset containing a wide range of variables that describe states in terms of their in-, through- and output performance.
Richard Kimber’s Political Science Resources

This site contains links to various datasets grouped by topic.