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• American Muslims Poll
  Conducted by Zogby Group International for The Project MAPS: Muslims in American Public Square, Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (CMCU). Topics include politics, voting behavior, terrorism, patriotism, the Middle East, community and interfaith activities, images of Islam and attitudes towards Muslims, important issues, and Islam.

  Sample Size: 1,781 Muslim American adults.

• American Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy Series (1975-2004)
  Quadrennial studies designed to investigate the opinions and attitudes of the general public and a select group of opinion leaders (or elites) on matters relating to United States foreign policy and to define the parameters of public opinion within which decision-makers must operate.

• Asia Europe Survey (ASES): A Multinational Comparative Study in 18 Countries, 2001
  Purpose was to study, in 18 countries of Asia and Europe, how democracy (or quasi-democracy) functions in response to various domestic and international stimuli, with a focus on the rise of civil society and the deepening of globalization. Covers generally five topics: (1) identity, (2) trust, (3) satisfaction, (4) beliefs and actions, and (5) socio-economic attributes.

  Sample Size: Adults aged 18-79 living in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece.

• Biennial Media Consumption Survey [1998 - 2002]
  Collects data on the public's use of, and attitudes toward, the Internet and traditional news outlets. Respondents are asked questions concerning their use of newspapers, television news, radio news, and news magazines.

• British House of Commons Roll Call Data (1841-1847)
  Investigated the socioeconomic composition of the 1841-1847 British House of Commons and the political behavior of the men who sat in it. For each member of parliament, data were collected on personal background, constituency, political career, social position, and professional and business interests. The information on political behavior includes party affiliation, roll call responses in 186 individual parliamentary votes (called "divisions"), and the parliament members' ranking on 24 cumulative scales derived from voting data to allow generalizations about voting patterns.

• Canadian Opinion Research Archive
  Makes available commercial and independent surveys to the academic, research and journalistic communities. Founded in 1992, the CORA contains hundreds of surveys collected by major commercial Canadian firms dating back to the 1970s. Most of the datasets are not available for direct download, but access to the archive may be requested. An interesting freely downloadable survey is the survey on "The New Canada", designed to provide an authoritative picture of the way the attitudes and values of Canadians are evolving. Also available is an Elections Canada survey of non-voters.

• Class Structure and Class Consciousness: Merged Multi-Nation File (1980-1983)
  Measures how such social concepts as authority, autonomy, and hierarchy relate to the social, economic, and occupational positions of individuals, thus providing a systematic means for analyzing social class structure. Addressed work-related issues such as supervision, decision-making, autonomy, respondent's formal position in the hierarchy, ownership, credentials, and income. Other work- related data describe the size, industrial sector, and government or corporate linkages of the individual's employer. Further information was gathered on the class origins of the respondent's family and of the families of the respondent's spouse and friends. Data on class-related experiences such as unemployment and union participation were also collected, as well as data on the division of power and labor in the household. In addition, contained a broad range of questions on social and political attitudes and on the respondent's political participation. Universe: USA: 18 & older working, not working but wanting to work, or housewives with working spouses. Sweden: 18-65 in the work force. Norway: 16-66 employed, unemployed, or housewives. Canada: Non-institutionalized & non-disabled 15-65 employed, unemployed or housewives. Finland: 18-65 employed, unemployed or housewives.

• Combating corruption in community development in Indonesia
  This is the raw data that is used for "Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia." The data contains a household survey, key informant survey, meeting surveys, and an engineering road survey.

• Comparative Immigrant Entrepreneurship Project (CIEP)
  Survey of over 1,200 Colombian, Dominican, and Salvadoran family heads is the first to explicitly measure the extent of economic, political, and socio-cultural transnationalism among immigrants and to develop predictive models of these activities.

• Comparative Immigrant Organization Project (CIOP)
  This survey of 89 Colombian, Dominican, and Mexican organization leaders and additional interviews with community activists and government officials is part of a larger study of the organizations constructed by Latin American immigrants in the United States and their impact on the political incorporation of these immigrants to American society. This specific dataset was designed to give us greater understanding of the forces creating and sustaining these organizations and to test several preliminary hypotheses about the effects of contexts of exit and modes of incorporation in receiving countries on the character of immigrant transnationalism. Accordingly, there are detailed measures of the extent of economic, political, and socio-cultural transnationalism and characteristics of both the organizations and their members.

• Comparative Survey of Freedom, 1972-1976
  Contains information gathered in 5 annual surveys that assessed the degree of freedom in 218 nations and dependencies. Was carried out under the auspices of Freedom House, New York City. The number of cases with data varies from year to year, due to annexation, amalgamation, or the addition of further territories to the roster. Data includes assessments of the political and civil rights of the general population (using a seven-point scale, i.e., 1, most freedom, to 7, least freedom), an overall freedom rating for the country (using a three-point scale, i.e, free, partly free, and not free), and the direction in which this rating appeared to be moving. Surveys after 1972 have added variables that indicate whether a change in the evaluation since the previous survey was due to internal events in the country or to new information about existing conditions. Before 1973, only the presence or absence of change is noted. Thereafter, an increase in the number of coding categories enables the direction of the change to be recorded. The 1976 data include 4 additional variables applicable to 142 cases and provide information about the system of government and the economy of most of the nations studied.

• Cross-National Indicators of Liberal Democracy (1950-1990)
  Collection of crossnational measures of political democracy containing over 800 variables for most of the world's independent countries. Political, social, and economic measures are available in the data file, and topics include adult suffrage, civil liberties, political rights, the openness, fairness, and competitiveness of the electoral process, executive and legislative selection and effectiveness, political party legitimacy, political participation, limitations on the executive branch of the government, level of democratization, economic openness, constitutional development, government legitimacy, and the outlook for freedom. A series of variables focuses on freedom and barriers to freedom, including freedom of peaceful assembly and association, mail censorship, women's rights, freedom of information and technology, freedom of political opposition, and freedom of the press. Compulsory membership in state organizations and political parties and compulsory religion in schools are addressed as well.

• Detroit Area Studies
  Initiated in 1951. Has been carried out nearly every year till the present. Provides reliable data on the Greater Detroit community. Each survey probes a different aspect of personal and public life, economic and political behavior, political attitudes, professional and family life, and living experiences in the Detroit metropolitan area. Includes The Detroit Arab American Study (DAAS) (2003).

• Eurobarometer Question Search
  Online search tool for finding whether and when a topic was covered on the Eurobarometer surveys (see Eurobarometer Survey Series). Also includes a topical guide.

• Eurobarometer Survey Series. 1970+
  Large set of surveys measuring public opinion in the countries of the European Union, on a wide variety of topics.

• Federal Election Commission
  Detailed data on campaign contributions and expenditures by candidates, parties, and committees.

• French Representation Study, 1946-1958
  Contains data for the First, Second, and Third Legislatures of the French National Assembly for the Fourth Republic in 1946-1958. Data are provided on the names of members of French major parties and on the roll call of party members in the three legislatures. Variables provide information on legislative bills, on topics such as NATO passage, defense of the Republic, the Algerian statute, Indo-China, Italy treaty, Paris accords, military budget, atomic energy development, strike regulations, taxes, public health, Parisian transportation, colliery schools, National Assembly reform, agriculture and the economy, land reform, fiscal reform, anti-inflation, salary scale, and amnesty.

• German Politbarometer Series
  Administered monthly since 1977. Surveys were conducted only in West Germany until 1990, when East German Politbarometers were added to the series. During the years in which there is a federal election, these surveys are considered part of the German Election Study series. The surveys are intended to assess the attitudes and opinions of eligible German voters on current events and problems, as well as on parties and politicians. In 1996-1998, the surveys were united and were not designated as East or West. Each data collection normally includes a cumulative file of the monthly Politbarometer surveys for a single year. In these surveys, certain political questions are asked each month, while other topical questions are asked irregularly or only once.

• How to be a Good Communist in Reform-Era China: Moulding the Agents of the State, 2004-2007
  Despite almost 30 years of reform, the Chinese state's functioning continues to revolve around the role of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which suffuses the entire state apparatus, providing it with leadership, purpose and strategy. The party has a range of tools at its disposal to maintain its grip over government, but the key component of continued Leninist supervision is its control over the careers of the officials (cadres) that populate the government, public services, state-owned enterprises, the judiciary, the arms of representative government (people's congresses and political consultative conferences) and indeed the party apparatus itself. This study interrogates the efforts to use cadre training to standardize, modernize and sanitize the practice and ethos of administration. Cadres, while they continue to be bound by the ideology and practice prescribed by Leninist party discipline, should also become modern, competent managers of increasingly complex organizations. (Free registration is required through the UK Data Archive)

• Impact of the Israeli measures on the well-being of the Palestinian children, women and the Palestinian household survey, 2001 : micro data.
  Main objective is to measure the impact of Israeli measures on Palestinian children, women, and households. Data collection took place during the period 4/11/2001-5/15/2001. A random stratified cluster sample was selected to represent the target population. Sample included enumeration areas close to clashes, settlements, and Israeli checkpoints. Sample also covered areas exposed to direct aggression from the Israeli military (shelling, shooting, uprooting of trees, land drifting, etc.) in addition to other areas. Includes projections of demographic and social characteristics for all household members, housing condition indicators, living level indicators for household, and main and secondary sources of income.

  Sample Size: Random stratified cluster sample

• International Colonialism Study: National Integration in the British Isles, 1851-1966
  Contains census, election, and vital statistics data for 118 British and Irish counties for the period 1851 to 1966. The information was collected for use in a study of regional integration and development in Great Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. Included are population indicators for each of the counties recorded at 11 points in time during the 115-year span (i.e., 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921, 1931, 1951, and 1961). Specific information includes indicators of population density and change, ethnic composition, proportion of election votes for Labour, Conservative, Liberal, and various nationalist parties, and proportion of population employed in areas such as agriculture, manufacturing, civil service, and (female) domestic work. Other data include number of Celtic speakers, literacy, religiosity, nativity (i.e., English-, Welsh-, Scottish-, Irish-, and French-born), sex ratio (female to male), birth rates, infant mortality rates, marriage rates, per capita income, and proportion of middle class.

• International Social Survey Program (ISSP) (1985+)
  1998-2005 is also available in an easy to use comparative program. For the latest see the site's web page. A listing of modules performed through 2008 is available. Ongoing program of crossnational collaboration. Develops topical modules dealing with important areas of social science as supplements to regular national surveys. Every survey includes questions about general attitudes toward various social issues such as the legal system, sex, and the economy. Special topics have included the environment, the role of government, social inequality, social support, family and gender issues, work orientation, the impact of religious background, behavior, and beliefs on social and political preferences, and national identity. Participating countries vary for each topical module.

• Latino National Political Survey, 1989-1990
  Measured the political attitudes and behaviors of three specific Latino groups in the United States: Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban. A non-Latino comparison group was also interviewed.

  Sample Size: 3415 Total: 2817 Latinos (1546 Mexican, 589 Puerto Rican, 682 Cuban), 598 non-Latinos

  Citation:
  Latino National Political Survey, 1989-1990 (Electronic File)
  Principal investigator: Rodolfo de la Garza, Angelo Falcon, F. Chris Garcia, John A. Garcia
  Producer: Philadelphia, PA: Temple University, Institute for Social Research
  Distributor: Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
  Version: 3rd ICPSR version
  

• Learning Democracy in Mexico and the United States, 2000
  This survey was done in Mexico and the US and includes knowledge of and attitudes about democracy from understanding what it is, expectations about it, satisfaction with the way it works in their country, memberships in organizations, participation in politics, attitudes about politics and government, and confidence in institutions.

• Legislative Behavior in the Israeli Knesset, 1974-1975
  Contains data from personal interviews with 86 members of the 8th Israeli Knesset (1973-1977). Data include members' general perceptions of the legislature and the Israeli political world, as well as their specific party and career histories, areas of expertise, positions held in the Knesset, legislative accomplishments and goals, and legislative behavior, e.g., contact with party leaders, civil servants, and constituents. Other survey data focus on members' political socialization, recruitment, and first political awareness, including the impact of World War II (e.g., concentration camps and purges), elections, Zionism, family activists, school, the Palestine-Israeli conflict, anti-Semitism in community, and membership in youth groups. Personal background data are also included, e.g., age, sex, education, religion, country of origin, family circumstances, and wave (Aliyah) of immigration to Israel.

• Matrix of Policy in the Philippines, 1948-1969
  Contains information for the following 10 major topic areas. PART 1. Survey (Pegasus) File. 182 variables for 1,550 respondents in 1969. Variables cover attitudes toward Philippine government, social, economic, and political conditions, attitudes toward and knowledge of dissidents and exposure to crime and violence PART 2. General Province Data. PART 3. Province Election Data. PART 4. City Voting Data. PART 5. Municipio Data. PART 6. Barrio Data. PART 7. City Socioeconomic Data. PART 8. Province Crime Data. PART 9. Province Economic Data. PART 10. Province Manufacturing Data

• Minorities at Risk (MAR) Project (1945+)
  Tracks 284 politically-active ethnic groups throughout the world -- identifying where they are, what they do, and what happens to them. Focuses specifically on ethnopolitical groups, non-state communal groups that have "political significance" in the contemporary world because of their status and political actions. Political significance is determined by: (1) The group collectively suffers, or benefits from, systematic discriminatory treatment vis-a-vis other groups in a society and (2) The group is the basis for political mobilization and collective action in defense or promotion of its self-defined interests.

• MORI/GMF Poll: 2002 European World Views Survey
  This study of 6 European countries is the European counterpart to the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations American Public Opinion and US Foreign Policy, 2002 survey. Includes the US role in the world, looking at foreign policy goals, economic aid, spending, vital interests, the use of US troops, attitudes toward specific countries, NATO, foreign aid, trade, economic sanctions, globalization, and terrorism.

• National Race and Politics Survey (1991)
  Asked questions to gauge attitudes about welfare, race relations, altruism, and members of other races.

• National Survey of Latinos (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007)
  Surveys among the Latino community with themes each year (immigration, politcs and civil participation, education).

  Sample Size: Nationally representative samples of Latino respondents ages 18 and older.

• Odum Institute Public Opinion Poll Question Database
  The Odum Institute houses the Louis Harris Data Center, the national depository for publicly available survey data collected by Louis Harris and Associates, Inc. More than 1,000 Harris Polls from as early as 1958 are archived at the Center. Other public opinion data at the Institute include the Carolina Polls and Southern Focus Polls, Gallup polls from the U.S. and other countries, and polls from major broadcasting networks and newspapers. Many of the datasets, including the Harris polls, are available for direct download. Includes many state polls.

• Pew Hispanic Center
  The Pew Hispanic Center is a non-partisan research organization. Its mission is to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the United States.

• Pew Research Center For The People & The Press data archive
  The Pew Research Center is an independent opinion research group that studies attitudes toward the press, politics and public policy issues. They are best known for regular national surveys that measure public attentiveness to major news stories, and for their polling that charts trends in values and fundamental political and social attitudes.

• Pilot National Asian American Political Survey (PNAAPS), 2000-2001
  Multicity, multiethnic, and multilingual survey that provides a preliminary attempt to gauge the political attitudes and behavior of Asian Americans on a national scale.

  Sample Size: 1218

  Citation:
  Pilot National Asian American Political Survey (PNAAPS), 2000-2001 (Electronic File)
  Principal investigator: Pei-te Lien, University of Utah
  Producer: Van Nuys, CA: Interviewing Service of America, Inc.
  Distributor: Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
  Version: ICPSR
  

• Pohtiva - Poltical Manifesto Data Resource (Finland)
  Approximately 800 Finnish Political Party Manifestos from 57 parties beginning from the end of the 19th century.

• Political Elites in Mexico, 1900-1971
  Contains information on the political office holder's sex, birthplace, profession/occupations, military service, date and place of birth and death, father's occupation, education (preparation, length, attainment, specialization, foreign training), travel abroad, intellectual activities (publications, teaching), political affiliation, political offices held and length of stay, activity during the revolution of 1910-1920, geographical entity represented, memberships in political and other organizations. Requires free registration. Courtesy of University of Wisconsin.

• Political Regimes and Regime Transitions in Africa, 1910-1994
  Focuses on political regimes and regime transitions in 47 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The first part contains information on the characteristics of post-colonial political regimes from independence to December 31, 1989. Economic variables include GNP per capita, inflation, structural adjustment programs, overseas development assistance, and external debt, while social indicators concern ethnic & religious fragmentation. Political variables provide a listing of every national election in Africa from independence to 1989, for totals of presidential and parliamentary contests, the number of political parties, association groups, and media outlets in each country in 1975 and 1989, and type of political regime, including the duration of each regime in years and the total number and mode of previous regime transitions up to 1989. The second part covers the political dynamics of regime transitions from 1990-1994. Includes political protests, liberalization reforms, elections, and changes of government in each country. In addition, there is a complete set of standard election results for every multiparty contest in Africa from 1990-1994, along with information on whether observers ruled the vote as free and fair, whether incumbents were ousted, and whether losers accepted the results.

• Political Systems Performance Data: Sweden, 1865-1967
  Time-series annual data. Variables include population characteristics, such as the total population, the number of people aged 0 to 14 years, 0 to 4 years, and over 65, birth rate, live births per 1,000 population, infant mortality rate, gross death rate, and life expectancy at birth for females, the number of elementary school students, secondary school students, and university students, the number of civil servants, doctors, midwives, hospital beds, school teachers, and university teachers, the population of the three largest cities, and the urban population. Economic variables provide information on government revenues, government expenditures on defense, education, pensions, welfare, public health, veterans' benefits, and labor benefits, Gross National Product, percentage of the population employed in agriculture, the value of agricultural production, energy consumption, the maximum income tax rate, the number of recipients of public relief, the number of recipients of public pensions, unemployment rate, price index, and the number of union members. Other variables provide information on the enfranchised population, voting turnout, votes for parties of the Left, and the number of suicides.

• Polity IV: Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions, 1800-2008
  Contains information on and access to the most recent update of the well-known and highly respected Polity data series, originally designed by Ted Robert Gurr. 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 1800-2008.

• Poverty survey 2003 micro data. (Palestine)
  Provides information on the effects of border closures and other political upheaval to the living standards of the Palestinian population. Also tracks changes in living standards and poverty. PCBS conducted the poverty survey in the Palestinian Territory during December 2003.

  Sample Size: 3,127 households (1,899 in the West Bank and 1,228 in the Gaza Strip)

• Quebec Sovereignty Referendum Study, 1995
  This study, part of the "Can Mature Democracies Fail?" project, looked at public opinion regarding issues related to the Quebec Sovereignty Referendum held October 30, 1995. The sample consisted of adults aged 18 and over from Quebec and the rest of Canada (ROC).

• Record of American Democracy (ROAD) 1984-1990
  Includes election returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic measures of the American public at unusually low levels of geographic aggregation ("precinct" level). Covers every state in the country from 1984 through 1990 (including some off-year elections).

• Roll Call Votes in the European Parliament (1979-2004)
  Record of how each member of the European Parliament voted.

  Citation:
  Roll Call Votes in the European Parliament (1979-2004) (Electronic File)
  Principal investigator: Simon Hix, Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland
  

• Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
  Archive of public opinion and survey research.

• Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, 2000
  Comprises both a national sample of some 3,000 respondents and community respondents in 41 communities nationwide (across 29 states) covering an additional 26,700 respondents. Measures everything from levels of giving blood, to hanging out with friends, to participating in various groups and associations, to levels of trust, to participation in group arts and group sports, to the diversity of our friendship patterns.

• State of the First Amendment [1997 - 2006]
  Collects data on Americans' attitudes towards First Amendment issues, including freedom of expression and tolerance for art that may be offensive to others.

• Supreme Court Database
  Contains over 200 pieces of information about each case decided by the Supreme Court between the 1953 and 2008 terms. Examples include the identity of the court whose decision the Court reviewed, the parties to the suit, the legal provisions considered in the case, and the votes of the Justices.

• Survey of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa, 2000-2001
  Explored the relationship between truth acceptance and reconciliation among South Africans during and since the political transition from Apartheid to democracy.

• Survey Research Data Archive at Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  Large archive housing a number of Taiwan research studies including the Social Image Survey in Taiwan and Taiwan's Election and Democratization Studies, TEDS.

  Application must be made directly to the center for permission to use the data, and should be done well in advance of a project's due date. Also, be aware that English documentation is not available in all cases.

• Surveys of Members of the European Parliament, 2000 and 2006
  The most significant change in the institutional structure of European governance over the past 2 decades has been the increased power of the European Parliament (EP). Given the Parliament's growing influence and the dramatic EU enlargement in 2004, it has become increasingly important to monitor the attitudes and behavior of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from different member states. The European Parliament Research Group (EPRG) conducted two surveys of MEPs in 2000 and 2006. The 2000 survey was conducted in October-December 2000 and surveyed MEPs of the 5th European Parliament (1999-2004). The 2006 survey was conducted in March-June 2006 and surveyed MEPs of the 6th European Parliament (2004-09). Includes the following categories of questions: personal details (member state, date first elected to EP, previous political experience), electoral systems and candidate selection, campaigning aims and activities attitudes/behavior relating to representation, behavior in committees and voting in the Parliament, general political attitudes, attitudes towards specific EU policies, and attitudes towards EU institutional reform. To obtain a free account please register with the UKDA.

• Swedish Election Test-Data Series: Swedish Election Study (1956-1982)
  Systematically selected subsample of persons who were interviewed for the Swedish Election Study, a survey which queried Swedes about their political attitudes, preferences and behavior.

• U.S. Supreme Court Justices Database
  Contains information on individuals nominated (whether confirmed or not) to the U.S. Supreme Court (John Jay-Samuel A. Alito, Jr). Houses 263 variables, falling roughly into 5 categories: identifiers, background characteristics and personal attributes, nomination and confirmation, service on the Court, and departures from the bench.

• United Nations Roll Call Data (1946-1985)
  Developed from the official records of the meetings of the main committees of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Data for the most recent sessions were primarily derived from the United States state department records of the United Nations roll calls. A major purpose of this data series was to provide for the analysis over time of world opinion on issues and concerns raised by members of the international community, while also allowing for the study of the dynamics through which alliances and factions are formed within and between nations of the world. The collection consists of roll calls voted upon in the United Nations. It is a composite of political debates and world opinions of the post-1945 international community.

• United States Presidential Inaugural Addresses, 1789-2009
  Includes the Inaugural Addresses of United States Presidents from George Washington in 1789 to Barack Obama in 2009.

• United States Presidential Primary Exit Poll Series (2000+)
  Conducted by the National Election Pool (NEP) from results obtained from interviews of a sample of voters exiting polling places in those states that hold political party presidential primaries or caucuses on their respective primary days. Provides data on voters' choices in the primaries and on the issues and factors that most influenced those votes, as well as their opinions on presidential candidates, and other social issues. The data consist of individual state primary exit polls.

• United States Presidential State of the Union Addresses, 1913-2008
  State of the Union addresses from Woodrow Wilson in 1913 to George W. Bush in 2008.

• United States Supreme Court Judicial Database Terms (1946-1997)
  Encompasses all aspects of United States Supreme Court decision-making. In this collection, distinct aspects of the court's decisions are covered by 6 types of variables: (1) identification variables including case citation, docket number, unit of analysis, and number of records per unit of analysis, (2) background variables offering information on origin of case, source of case, reason for granting cert, parties to the case, direction of the lower court's decision, and manner in which the Court takes jurisdiction, (3) chronological variables covering date of term of court, chief justice, and natural court, (4) substantive variables including multiple legal provisions, authority for decision, issue, issue areas, and direction of decision, (5) outcome variables supplying information on form of decision, disposition of case, winning party, declaration of unconstitutionality, and multiple memorandum decisions, and (6) voting and opinion variables pertaining to the vote in the case and to the direction of the individual justices' votes.

• Voice of the People Series (2005+)
  Annual survey to solicit public opinion on social and political issues. Every year the survey will be conducted in approximately 50 countries, with a minimal sample size of 500 per country. Wherever possible, within each country a nationally representative sample n=500 adults, male and female, aged 18 and older will be used. In some emergent countries, where such research conditions are not possible, there may be stated variations to this (e.g. urban areas only). Similarly, in the developed world interviews will be conducted by telephone, while in emergent and under-developed countries face to face interviews will be conducted. Demographic variables include sex, age, household income, education level, employment status, and religious preference.

• Voter Registration in the United States (1968-1988) from ICPSR
  Voter registration data from state governments.

• Women in Parliament, 1945-2003: Cross-National Dataset
  Information on women's inclusion in parliamentary bodies in over 150 countries from 1945 to 2003. Allows for extensive, large-scale, cross-national investigation of the factors that explain women's attainment of political power over time and provides educators with comprehensive international and historical information on women in a variety of political positions. Information is provided on female suffrage, the first female member of parliament, yearly percentages of women in parliaments, when women reached important representational milestones, such as 10 %, 20 %, and 30 % of a legislature, and when women achieved highly-visible political positions, such as prime minister, president, or head of parliament.

• Youth Studies Series (1965-1997)
  Set of surveys designed to assess political continuity and change across time for biologically-related generations and to gauge the impact of life-stage events and historical trends on the behaviors and attitudes of respondents. A national sample of high school seniors and their parents was first surveyed in 1965. Subsequent surveys of the same individuals were conducted in 1973, 1982, and 1997. The general objective was to study the dynamics of political attitudes and behaviors by obtaining data on the same individuals as they aged from approximately 18 years of age in 1965 to 50 years of age in 1997. In this manner, the Youth Studies Series facilitates the analysis of generational, life cycle, and historical effects and political influences on relationships within the family.

• Zambia Democratic Governance Project Political Attitudes Survey, 1993 and 1996
  Designed to examine the determinants of political participation in a developing democracy. Topics covered in both years include political attitudes and interest at the local and national levels, and degree of political knowledge. Questions were asked about the frequency of discussing political matters, whether the respondent had attended a training session on the topic of citizen rights, satisfaction with work, finances, health, and life, and what role chiefs and headmen should play in governing Zambia today. Additional questions in 1993 asked if crime was a major problem and in what ways crime had affected the respondent's life. Additional questions in 1996 asked if during the last five years the respondent had contacted a chief or headman, a member of Parliament, or some other influential person, if the respondent was satisfied with the general state of the Zambian economy, and how much leisure time the respondent had in an average day. Demographic variables provided for respondents include age, gender, education, tribe affiliation, language, employment status, occupation, personal and family income, marital status, and number of children.