PSCC Libraries: Statistical Resources: Government and Political Science

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CountryWatch This link opens in a new window
Full-text news, country reviews and forecasts, and international election information. Includes maps and images.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Full-text reports with primary sources, updated weekly. Includes images.
Global Issues in Context This link opens in a new window
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Some full-text of journals, magazines, news, primary sources, country information, reference articles, and statistics 1900 to present. Includes images, maps, and videos.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) This link opens in a new window
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Some full-text of news, magazines, company profiles, market reports, SEC filings, country information, biographies, and legal cases. Includes Shepard's Supreme Court citation service, tax materials, and patents.
Statistical Abstracts of the United States This link opens in a new window
Statistics of the US 1878 to present.

Bureau of Justice Statistics
The BJS publishes reports online and in print. Statistics in the areas of law enforcement, prosecution, courts and sentencing, corrections (including capital punishment), and expenditure and employment.
Federal Election Commission election results

Tennessee State Data Center
The State Data Centers are the official source of demographic, economic, and social statistics, and redistricting data produced by the Census Bureau.

Comparative Agendas Project: Datasets & Codebooks
The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) assembles and codes information on the policy processes of governments from around the world.
Correlates of War datasets
"COW seeks to facilitate the collection, dissemination, and use of accurate and reliable quantitative data in international relations"
IndexMundi
IndexMundi is a data portal that gathers facts and statistics from multiple sources and turns them into easy to use visuals.
Transparency International: research
Transparency International is an NGO that seeks to uncover corruption in governments. This is a link to their available research which include reports and statistics.
UNdata
Single entry point for United Nations statistical databases.
United Nations Statistics Division
Provides a global center for data on international trade, national accounts, energy, industry, environment and demographic and social statistics gathered from national and international sources
USAFacts
Non profit private entity that collects and organizes data from federal, state, and local government sources.