Politics, Security & International Affairs

"ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation. Central to this mission is the active involvement of the ANES research community in all phases of the project."

"In analyzing the policy achievements and lasting impact of Presidents, it is often helpful to look at data relating to things such as the electoral context in which the President serves, level and type of presidential activity, and public approval. "

UCF Catalog Call Number: JK1967 .A8
Official, state-certified election returns by county and by district for the House, Senate and gubernatorial elections.

"an international journal covering all aspects of voting, the central act in the democratic process.... It publishes fully refereed papers, both theoretical and empirical, on such topics as relationships between votes and seats, and between election outcomes and politicians' reactions; historical, sociological, or geographical correlates of voting behaviour; rational choice analysis of political acts, and critiques of such analyses; the formal and behavioural properties of electoral systems; and work in game theory, political economy, or social choice relevant to elections.... Electoral Studies also provides comprehensive descriptive coverage of national elections and referendums in the democratic world in its 'Notes on Recent Elections' and 'National Elections: the cycle of elections' features."

FEC provides campaign finance data and is "the independent regulatory agency charged with administering and enforcing the federal campaign finance law. The FEC has jurisdiction over the financing of campaigns for the U.S. House, Senate, Presidency and the Vice Presidency."

"For every national election since 1964, we collected data on the characteristics of American voters. Find out how many citizens of voting age are registered, and how many vote, by age and sex, race and ethnicity, and more."

"Since 1920, the Clerk of the House has collected and published the official vote counts for federal elections from the official sources among the various states and territories."