http://www.politicaldata.org share your data Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:41:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WinEdt, the editor of choice for many LaTeX users, can be used as Stata do-file editor in a fairly simple manner by installing Stata Mode.  However, as far as I can tell, the author of Stata Mode doesn't appear to have anticipated Stata's willingness to produce new versions - in ... http://www.politicaldata.org/?p=19 Combining the tikz package with gnuplot allows you to plot graphs without ever leaving your favorite editor.  Adding the tikz package is straightforward as with other LaTeX packages but everytime I run into trouble installing gnuplot.  As far as I can tell the following steps are sufficient and necessary to ... http://www.politicaldata.org/?p=14 This is a simple hack of newapa.bst to confirm with the bibliography style of Economics of Governance. Other economics journals published by Springer, e.g., International Journal of Game Theory, appear to use the same bibliography style. Here are a couple of examples of what the bibliography style looks ... http://www.politicaldata.org/?p=13 Data on the electoral alliance between the Socialist and the Greens in the 2002 French legislative election from Blais, André and Indridi H. Indridason. 2007. “Making Candidates Count: The Logic of Electoral Alliances in Two Round Legislative Elections.” Journal of Politics 69(1): 193-205. data [stata] codebook [pdf] http://www.politicaldata.org/?p=12 The blog Assisting Politics provides some interesting information on the publication record of assisting professors in U.S. including number of publications, in what journals, etc.  A great resource if you want to figure out whether you really are being productive enough (as if you need more stress in your life).  ... http://www.politicaldata.org/?p=11 NOTE: The MIPT Terrorist Knowledge Base doesn't appear to be online anymore. The Global Terrorism Database seems like a comparable source. The MIPT Terrorist Knowledge Base (www.tkb.org) provides data on international terrorist incidents since 1968 and domestic terrorist incidents since 1998. The database is updated monthly. Each terrorist incident ... http://www.politicaldata.org/?p=4 Data on coalition formation, duration, termination, and composition in Iceland between 1945-2003 from Indridi H. Indridason. 2005. “A Theory of Coalitions and Clientelism: Coalition Politics in Iceland 1945-2000”. European Journal of Political Research 44(3): 439-464.   The format of the tables follows Müller, Wolfgang and Kaare Strøm, eds. (2000). ... http://www.politicaldata.org/?p=3 The aim of politicaldata.org is (or, rather, will be) to ease the dissemination of data on political phenomena. Initially, the primary focus will be on data from the Nordic countries but eventually I hope to expand the coverage, well, as much as possible. If you have data that you would ... http://www.politicaldata.org/?p=1