Data Sources

Browse the main providers and distributors behind the datasets.

A data source is the main provider of data. It may be the creator or main distributor of a dataset. It can be an institution, a sole author, or several researchers who devote efforts into making the data available.

Data on the establishment of environmental ministries from the article: Aklin, M. and Urpelainen, J., 2014. The global spread of environmental ministries: domestic–international interactions. International Studies Qu ...

Data used in the article: Bättig, M.B., Brander, S. and Imboden, D.M., 2008. Measuring countries’ cooperation within the international climate change regime. Environmental Science & Policy, 11(6), pp.478-489.

Data on environmental non-governmental organizations used in the article: Bernauer, T., Böhmelt, T. and Koubi, V., 2013. Is there a democracy–civil society paradox in global environmental governance?. Global Environm ...

The Berggruen Governance Index Project (BGI) analyzes the relationship between democratic accountability, state capacity and the provision of public goods. It builds upon prior work that examined the impact of governance ...

The 'Change in Source of Leader Support' (CHISOLS) data is an effort by Michaela Mattes, Brett Ashley Leeds and Naoko Matsumura.

Luciana Cingolani
QoG code: cingolani

Luciana Cingolani is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at the Hertie School. She is also an affiliate of the Centre for Digital Governance and an Expert of UNESCO’s Inclusive Policy Lab. Her career has focused ...

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) has been active for over 40 years in the fields of international disaster and conflict health studies, w ...

The Energy Institute
QoG code: ei

The Energy Institute (EI) is the chartered professional membership body for people who work across the world of energy. Their purpose is creating a better energy future for our members and society by accelerating a just ...

Holzinger, Knill, Sommerer
QoG code: envipolcon

ENVIPOLCON is the acronym of ‘Environmental governance in Europe: the impact of international institutions and trade on policy convergence’. The project was carried out between 2003 and 2006 by the following universities ...

GenDip: Gender in Diplomacy
QoG code: gendip

The GenDip program is led by Professor Ann Towns, Wallenberg Academy Fellow, and consists of a research group at the Department of Political Science of the University of Gothenburg as well as an international research ne ...

Led by Ricardo Hausmann, the Growth Lab at Harvard's Center for International Development works to understand the dynamics of growth and to translate those insights into more effective policy-making in developing countri ...

Tax Expenditures Lab
QoG code: gted

The Global Tax Expenditures Database (GTED) is led by the Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE).

Established in 1979, The PRS Group is the world’s leading quant-driven political and country forecasting and risk rating firm. With its early intellectual roots firmly planted in academe and in joint research with the US ...

The International Environmental Agreements (IEA) Database Project seeks to foster analysis of international environmental agreements (IEAs) by providing a "single source" repository for most information related to IEAs a ...

The ISSP evolved out of pre-existing general social surveys. Its origin was a bilateral collaboration between the respective national studies of National Opinion Research Center (NORC), University of Chicago and Zentrum ...

Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University

Davide Romelli
QoG code: romelli

Davide Romelli is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, a Research affiliate of IM-TCD (International Macro-TCD) and SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum and a Research ...

O'Reilly and Murphy
QoG code: sci

Data used in the article: O'Reilly, C. and Murphy, R.H. (2022), An Index Measuring State Capacity, 1789–2018. Economica, 89: 713-745. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12411

QoG Swedish Agency Database
QoG code: swedat

This database (Dahlström, Holmgren, Björkdahl, Hazell, Khomenko, Svensson and Åberg, 2018) consists of a comprehensive sample of administrative agencies in the Swedish executive bureaucracy between 1960 and 2014. The dat ...

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs conducts demographic research, supports intergovernmental processes at the United Nations in the area of population and development, and assists co ...