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Interviews with national parliamentary administrators in the UK re national p...
The interviews focus on the role of the UK parliament in EU affairs since the Lisbon Treaty came into effect in late 2009. They include interviews with parliamentary clerks,... -
Collection of tweets mentioning the UK petitions
This dataset includes entire tweets including a link to a petition on the UK government petitioning website. The data is collected via the Twitter public API. Please see... -
Collection of tweets mentioning the US petitions
This dataset includes entire tweets including a link to a petition on the US whitehouse petitioning website; We the People. The data is collected via the Twitter public API.... -
Government websites hyperlink networks, multiple countries
The dataset includes the hyperlink network structure of the government websites in different countries. This version of the dataset includes data from Canada, Japan, and Spain.... -
TRUST: Tracing Risk and Uncertainty in Security Technology: Interview Transcr...
Interviews with scientists and engineers, as well as with end-users, relating to the development of a handheld Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosives... -
Estimated political opinion in Westminster parliamentary constituencies
This data set contains estimates of average public opinion on several topics for 632 British parliamentary constituencies. These estimates are derived from existing primary data... -
Politics and interactive media in Africa (PiMA) household survey, Kenya and Z...
Individual-level household survey dataset for one urban and one rural constituency in Kenya and Zambia, covering questions on media and communications habits, political... -
Measuring the societal benefit of online civic 'self-help' sites, 2014
Data collection investigating whether online civic ‘self-help’ sites provide an entryway into civic and political engagement. Data were gathered on usage of the sites, levels of... -
Parliamentary Oversight in Russia and Ukraine 2006
This project sought to broaden understanding of the role of legislatures in contemporary states by investigating oversight in two post-Soviet cases, Russia and Ukraine, where... -
The information environment and participation
This is the data used for our paper "The Information Environment and Participation: When Reading a Newspaper Increases the Prob- ability of Voting". The data are in Stat format... -
UK Non-Departmental Public Bodies and Non-Ministerial Departments 1985-2009
This data collection presents yearly data on non-ministerial departments and non-departmental public bodies taken from Public Bodies, an annual publication published by the... -
Selling scandal or ideology? The politics of business crime coverage
Quotes regarding price fixing and cartel cases from the British press (9 newspapers) between 2000-2009 which were then coded for qualitative content analysis. This enabled... -
Faith-based conflict prevention and early warning scoping project
Qualitative data from collaborative research undertaken in Nigeria and Solomon Islands by researchers from the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (Coventry University)... -
Advancing understanding in news information, political knowledge and media sy...
As part of the Advancing Understanding of Media Effects on Political Knowledge project, we conducted a laboratory based experimental study to investigate some of the issues we... -
Voices in the City: Understanding the role of the City of London as a multi-l...
The study will use a mixed methodology approach employing both formal and informal Network Analysis. This will involve conducting survey questionnaires and in-depth interviews... -
Elite interviews: Russia and Islam
The project had two main dimensions: the first is theoretical and the second is empirical, focusing on three case studies (Moscow, Tatarstan and Dagestan). The theoretical... -
Highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) rationing and access mechanisms ...
The main purpose of this research is to investigate how youth may be 'rationed out' of HAART use by better understanding rationing and access mechanisms and their interaction.... -
The politics of austerity in public services: UK public finance and political...
This spreadsheet contains most of the secondary data. The spreadsheet contains all the series for which we were able to obtain permission from the publishers/owners to show in... -
Developing Skills for Government: Political Mentoring
Focusing on the introduction of a national programme of political mentoring for local government this research investigated why formal development is rare in politics and how... -
Gender and the Conservative Party
This research project provides a comprehensive gendered analysis of the contemporary UK Conservative party. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews were carried out with...
