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Bessette/Pitney’s AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: DELIBERATION, DEMOCRACY AND CITIZENSHIP reviews the idea of "deliberative democracy." Building on the book, this blog offers insights, analysis, and facts about recent events.

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Friday, October 11, 2013

Look Things Up and Find Things Out

General Sources and Advice
  • My homepage
  • My tips on research and writing
  • Using Lexis-Nexis Academic
  • Congress.gov (new)
Shutdown Workarounds (or where to look if your usual data site is down)
  • Census Alternatives
  • Historical Census data at UVA
  • Archived Statistical Abstract of the United States
  • Archived Historical Statistics of the United States
  • Archived tables from 2012 Digest of Education Statistics
  • Archived Bureau of Economic Analysis
  • EconoMagic:  Economic Time Series
  • HUD State of the Cities Data System
  • FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
  • NY Times story on alternative sources of jobs data
  • TRAC crime data
  • Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Posted by Pitney at 11:45 AM
Labels: demographics, government, political science, politics, research, statistics
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