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Comparative datasets and research programs help test claims across cases. Their definitions, coverage, coding rules, and transferability limits matter as much as the headline result.
Democracy data
V-Dem
Cross-national democracy datasets and methodology.
Visit source ↗Conflict dataUppsala Conflict Data Program
Structured datasets on organized violence and conflict events.
Visit source ↗War & state-system dataCorrelates of War
Long-running conflict, alliance, capability, and state-system datasets.
Visit source ↗Constitutional comparisonComparative Constitutions Project / Constitute
Searchable constitutional texts and comparative constitutional data.
Visit source ↗Civic-space lawInternational Center for Not-for-Profit Law — Civic Freedom Monitor
Country legal monitors covering association, assembly, expression, and civic space.
Visit source ↗Civil-resistance researchInternational Center on Nonviolent Conflict Resource Library
Research and educational publications on civil resistance. One research tradition among several represented in this directory.
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