Here is a random assortment of links to data that I have stumbled upon on the web. Some are well organized and some are, well, not.
SourceOECD home [requires subscription]
Institut de la statistique – International Comparisons
Ron Francisco’s European Protest and Coercion Data
Africa Research Program, Harvard University
Pippa Norris’ Data [Democracy, UK elections and constituencies]
ESDS International [various macro and survey datasets]
Thomas Cusack’s data [spending, taxation, parties, governments]
Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe
Consitutional Change and Parliamentary Democracies CCPD [coalition governance]
Doring-Hallerberg Parliamentary Data [cross-national parliamentary passage of legislative bills]
Terrorism in Western Europe: Events Data [TWEED]
C.N.C.C.F.P. – Commission nationale des comptes de campagne et des financements politiques [France]
Factional and Government Make-Up of the Knesset
Patterns of Global Terrorism 1993-1999
Cheibub and Kalandrakis’ Global Database of Political Institutions and Economic Performance
The World Bank Group’s Household Survey Data
Links to more links:
Emory’s Electronic Data Center: National Statistical and Electoral Sources