Coming soon: 2016 US elections
RealClearPolitics: Election 2016 This site from RealClearPolitics offers readers daily updates on polls, interviews, speeches, and other news related to the 2016 election. It currently includes polls relating to the Republican and Democratic nominations.
Charlie Hebdo attacks: first anniversary
Twitter coverage of the anniversary The University of Oxford has translated and made free on the Internet a book on tolerance. With extracts from key French philosophers and writers. The original text was La Société Française d’Etude du Dix-Huitième Siècle (ed.), Tolerance: le combat des Lumières (Paris: SFEDS, 2015). Contents include: The Declaration of the […]
Data centres for researchers
The Economic and Social Research Council are funding three data centres – the Consumer Data Research Centre https://www.cdrc.ac.uk/ the Urban Big Data Centre at University of Glasgow Business and Local Government Data Research Centre at the University of Essex. Please feel free to explore them and use them in your research.
How far have we come? Lessons from the 1965 Race relations Act
Free access to this collection of essays from the Runnymede Trust. The 26 page pamphlet covers the socio-legal context of the act, the implementation of the act in the 21st century and the relationship between the act and the Magna Carta.
Open the Door: social science research for development and a sustainable future
New publication from the European Commission. Download the full text in PDF from the website. Provides descriptions and examples of key EU research programmes in these fields. Each entry include details of partners, description and outcome.
Migration in the media
How do the media cover international migration stories? The report, Moving Stories, is published by the Ethical Journalism Network and reviews media coverage of migration in the European Union and in 14 countries across the globe. It finds that in general coverage is poor. It refers to a concentration on sensationalism, a failure to highlight […]
Spanish Elections on Sunday
A look forward at the possible outcome of Spain’s elections on Sunday. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/16/spain-election-guide-parties-electoral-system-podemos-and-ciudadanos
Africa in Fact
Good Governance Africa is an organisation based in Africa which aims to improve government performance on the continent. Its website offers free access to its Africa in Fact publication for the last few years which contains articles discussing governance and government management in Africa. Other useful resources on standards of African governance include: Ibrahim Index of African […]
Examining UK government performance
Just released from the Institute for Government the Annual Whitehall Monitor 2015. This provides statistics and visual data on government department size, staffing impact and transparency. There are 163 data tables. Last month the Alliance for Useful Evidence released a new framework tool to measure government departments on how transparent their use of evidence is […]
More data portals
Open Data Inception has mapped over 1600 open data portals around the world. Hover over the maps to get statistics on different nations. Then zoom in on individual areas to get direct links to individual websites. Some are national, some regional or local government.
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