ACE Electoral Knowledge Network: http://aceproject.org/
This provides information about how elections are conducted, including the electoral system.
Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org/
Reports on human rights abuses. The Amnesty International Report summarizes the human rights situation for every country.
Center for Systemic Peace: http://www.systemicpeace.org/
Provides information about political violence, warfare, state failure, and the Polity IV democracy indicator.
Centre for the Study of Civil War, PRIO: http://www.prio.no/CSCW/Datasets/
Connected with the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, this web site has data on civil wars and links to publications.
Colpus Dataset: https://www.johnjchin.com/colpus
Dataset on coups and coup attempts.
CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
Basic information on countries.
Electoral Integrity Project: https://sites.google.com/site/electoralintegrityproject4/home
An international project that assesses the integrity of elections.
Europa, the Official EU website: http://europa.eu/
A lot of useful information about the European Union and its member countries.
Freedom House: www.freedomhouse.org
Provides ratings and descriptions of the level of political freedom and civil liberty for every country. Look especially under Freedom in the World.
Global Nonviolent Action Database: https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/
Information on historical nonviolent campaigns.
Global Protest Tracker: https://carnegieendowment.org/features/global-protest-tracker?lang=en
Lists recent prominent protests around the world.
Global Witness: http://www.globalwitness.org/index.php
An NGO that looks at connections between resources, conflict, and government abuses.
GSS Codebook: http://gss.norc.org/Get-Documentation/questionnaires
Information, including codebooks, for General Social Survey used in PG 279.
Human Rights Measurement Initiative: https://humanrightsmeasurement.org/
Uses surveys of human rights experts to measure a wide range of human rights.
Inter-Parliamentary Union: http://www.ipu.org/english/home.htm
Provides information on parliaments and legislatures around the world. The PARLINE database provides information on recent elections and parliamentary rules. The site also provides information on women in politics.
Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP): http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/HOME
Run by Mitchell Seligson at Vanderbilt University. Provides data on public opinion in Latin America.
NES 2016 Questions: https://electionstudies.org/resources/anes-question-search/
This allows you to look up questions used in the NES to find the full original wording.
Political Database of the Americas: http://pdba.georgetown.edu/
Provides a lot of political information about countries throughout the Western Hemisphere. Provided by the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University.
Political Resources on the Net: http://www.politicalresources.net/
Links to constitutions and websites for political parties and institutions (mostly in native language for the country).
SIPRI Yearbook: http://www.sipri.org/yearbook
From the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, this has information on a variety topics connected with armed conflict.
Transparency International: http://www.transparency.org/
NGO that provides a corruption perceptions index and other information on corruption.
U.S. Department of State Background Notes: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
Basic information and short histories for a variety of countries.
Vision of Humanity: https://www.visionofhumanity.org/maps/global-terrorism-index/
This site has the Global Terrorism Index, various peace indexes and other data.
Waging Nonviolence: https://wagingnonviolence.org/
News and analysis on nonviolent protest.
World Bank: www.worldbank.org
Has reports on development and economic data.