Media pluralism and democracy
Published this week, the latest Eurobarometer survey of EU citizens on Media pluralism and democracy found that 57% of EU citizens believe that the media in their countries lack independence from political and commercial pressure and 75% of the respondents have experienced hate speech on social media.
WGBH Openvault – Historic US TV and radio
Free access to clips from the WGBH Media Library and archives which includes TV and radio programmes many with transcripts. Listen to Nixon campaigning in 1968 The organisation is a public service broadcaster and it includes key PBS broadcasts. Special collections include the 1983 history of the Vietnam war, plus highlights from the Educational Radio […]
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 […]
NI Archive
Brendan Duddy Papers at NUI Galway. A new digital collection. Brendan Duddy was a Derry businessman born in 1936 and with an involvement in community affairs, civil rights in Northern Ireland. A protestant, he had a peace role with all communities and witnessed key events from the 1970s-2008. The papers include newspaper clippings and his eye-witness statements relating […]
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 […]
Women Parliamentarians suffer sexism, harassment and violence
Shocking new study by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) reveals that sexism, harassment and violence against women MPs is widespread worldwide. Over 81% of those surveyed said they had experienced psychological threats including abuse and threatening language in politics. For more information on this topic listen to the audio of a recent public event held at […]
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 […]
United States Treaty Series 1776-1949
Free access to the United States Treaty Series, compiled by Charles I. Bevans, via the Law Library of Congress website. It includes all bilateral and multilateral treaties 1776-1949. They also have a great introductory guide on understanding US treaties.
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.
Comparing politicians
With the ongoing Labour Party contest you might want to compare politicians. A great source of free open data about the UK is theyworkforyou EveryPolitician covers almost every country in the world and data can be searched by date and name for each country. It can be downloaded in 2 formats: in CSV (excel spreadsheets) or […]
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