How many women have served in the US Congress?
Get the data from the latest Library of Congress CRS report Women in Congress, 1917-2016: Biographical and Committee Assignment Information and Listings by State and Congress. The 110 page document lists and provides biographic information on individuals as well as statistics on numbers, parties and roles. For more information on women and parliamentary representation worldwide […]
Presidential transition resources.
The Newseum front page archives is creating a web archive of worldwide newspaper front page images for election day so you can browse images of the headlines from hundreds of national and local American newspapers plus a wide selection of the international press. Scroll down to the date to see the Trump entries for November […]
Historic US election results
USA Presidential elections. Here are some historical data sources. Official vote counts for federal elections since 1920 from the official sources compiled by the Office of the Clerk. National Archives: Historical Election Results The Office of the Federal Register at the National Archives coordinates the functions of the Electoral College on behalf of the Archivist […]
US presidential elections (again)
To celebrate (!) the forthcoming elections here are some favourite historic digital collections. Museum of the Moving Image: the Living Room Candidate Has online commercials from 1952 and includes examples from 2016. In terms of the latter the blog provides a great daily commentary on events. Search the site by candidate and issue. See some […]
US Elections 2016
Political Bots: are they manipulating the USA Presidential elections? An interesting project on digital politics and algorithms which is considering how the use of automated scripts, commonly called bots, on social media manipulates and is a form of political propaganda. It is surveying industry insiders as well as building a database of political incidents involving bots. Some […]
Free access to Congressional Research reports
EveryCRSReport.com provides free access to over 8,000 reports from the Congressional Research Service. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) works exclusively for the United States Congress, providing policy and legal analysis to committees and members of both the House and Senate regardless of party affiliation, therefore its reports clearly summarise legislative positions on domestic and foreign […]
USA Presidential debates new resources
Following on from last week’s list of resources. Here are some more new discoveries. This recent academic article examines whether academic staff are more likely to vote for Donald Trump It examines staff from law, politics and journalism and offers data on whether they are registered for a specific political party. CNN video library of […]
US Elections
The Electome Project from MIT Media Map is using Twitter data to look at reactions to the 2016 election race. It has articles and Twitter analysis of the first presidential debate. Log in to get a dashboard of results. The Social Media Analytic Command Center at Illinois State University. The most recent analysis is being […]
Are economists in touch with ordinary voters?
Find out by reading the results of this interesting recent survey from the Centre for Macroeconomics. It also covers Brexit- why did votes ignore the advice of economists. What were their reasons? The website has details on the response of the economic experts to the survey as well as information on methodology.
Gender balance in politics
A crowdsourcing game called Gender balance is trying to gather information about women in politics. The data collected will then be fed into the everypolitician site. This will be an alternative to IPU reporting which comes from member parliaments.
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