• There are lots of comparative politics resources at PoliSciData: https://www.poliscidata.com/pages/comparativePolitics.php
    • Poliscidata is a public academic source that helps researchers find, analyze and share results concerning comparative politics. Whether it is an individual country’s politics (Africa, Europe, etc.), general comparative politics, international relations, or information about surveys and polls, this site has a plethora of information that is both useful and easy to navigate through.
  •  The Pew Templeton Global Religious Futures Project: http://globalreligiousfutures.org/  
    • The Global Religious Futures project has lots of data on religion and issues surrounding religion from around the world. Most of the data is collected from Pew's large global survey projects and there are easy to use tools that let you play with data on religious observation, attitudes, laws, and liberties from countries around the world. 
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Measures of Political Institutions and Regime Type:
  • Freedom House: https://freedomhouse.org/
    • The Freedom House is an independent organization that has the mission to aid in the expansion of freedom and democracy across the globe. With the help of its data archive, this source analyzes the challenges to freedom, advocates for more political and civil liberties, defends human rights, and encourages democratic change. With this research, Freedom House helps collaborate with US leadership and other like-minded governments to oppose oppressive dictators and amplify fundamental rights.

  • Polity: http://www.systemicpeace.org/polityproject.html
    • Polity IV Projects is a comparative, quantitative analysis of states on polity ratings. In other words, this projects codes the authority characteristics of states (fully institutionalized autocracies, anocracies, and fully institutionalized democracies) in the world system (from 1800-2017) and compare it to a wide range of issues such as political instability.

  • Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem): https://www.v-dem.net/en/
    • Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is one of the newest ways to understanding and measuring democracy. With several datasets conceptualizing democracy, the V-Dem focuses on measuring 5 different principles: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian. As a systematic approach, V-Dem allows scholars and practitioners to explore the elements of democracy, the historical process of demarcations, and understand the causes, effects, and consequences of democracy.

  • Democracy Threat Index: https://protectdemocracy.org/threat-index/
    • The Democracy Threat Index was established to track and prevent American Democracy from declining into a more authoritarian form of government. With the help of leading scholars on autocracies, the program has identified six tactics leaders employ to dismantle democracies: corrupt elections, executives aggrandizing power at the expense of other institutions, delegitimization of communities, politicization of institutions, government spreading disinformation, and governments being able to diminish dissent.

  • Authoritarian Regimes Dataset: https://sites.google.com/site/authoritarianregimedataset/
    • The Authoritarian Regime Dataset (ARD) is a comprehensive archive of data concerning authoritarian regimes within the world from 1972-2014. With the use of its dataset, researchers, students, activists, and professionals can distinguish between different authoritarian regimes types, track global and regional authorities’ trends within countries, and more.

  • Comparative Study of Electoral Systems: https://cses.org/
    • The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) is a collaborative research program that compiles information concerning voting, demographics, and factors of electoral systems. Being a free, public dataset, this archive includes research agendas, questionnaires, and reports that focuses on current post-election studies in several countries and provinces across the globe.

  • Constitute Project
    • Database that contains all of the constitutions in the world, plus the ability to use their online portal to compare constitutions to one another.

  • Comparative Constitutions Project: http://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/
    • The Comparative Constitutions Project (CCP) is a comprehensive data archive about all the world’s constitutions. The project launched to aid in answering research questions about the origins and consequences of the constitutional making process, ultimately aiding in promoting peace, justice, and human development.


  • Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index: https://www.transparency.org/cpi2018
    • The Transparency International Corruption Perception Index is an organization that has a mission to stop corruption and promote transparency, accountability and integrity at all levels of government, politics, business, civil society, and in the daily lives of people. With a wide range of research from a corruption perceptions index, a global corruption barometer, and a global corruption report, the organization explores ways to mitigate corruption and promote a more well-balanced global environment.

  • Social Progress Imperative: https://www.socialprogress.org/
    • The Social Progress Imperative is a new economic measurement of conceptualizing the quality of life. The index is designed to complement, rather than replace, economic measures such as GDP, GDP per capita, and more. Across the globe, this progress index will measure if people have enough to eat, have some sort of shelter, accessible education, and more.

  • Political Database of the Americas: http://pdba.georgetown.edu/
    • The Political Database of the Americas (PDBA) is a non-governmental project of the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Georgetown University. Within this program, the database offers a centralized and systematized data information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, and political constitutional studies to strengthen democracy in the regions.

  • World Justice Project and the Rule of Law: https://worldjusticeproject.org/
    • The World Justice Project (WJP) is an independent organization working to advance the Rule of Law Worldwide. Within its mission, the organization aids in providing information about reducing corruption, combating poverty and disease, and protects people from injustices world worldwide. Through original research and data, including the Rule of Law Index, Global Insights, the Justice Gap, and Special Reports, this network allows the rule of law to be addressed and reinforced worldwide.