Watch this clip from The Wire.
It is the best description of research, ever.The big stuff:
Beware hallucinations and incomplete answers. Always ask for sources and links.
Finding the literature: https://consensus.app/
Great resources at Honnold Library -- which students usually overlook!
General Public Policy and Finance
- Nexis Uni: news sources and law journals
- Political science journals
- Dissertation abstracts (search for "California" and "redistricting" in abstracts, and you will see a couple of Rose Institute names)
The Internet Archive—if a link is broken or altered, this site might help you find it.
California
- CA.gov
- California ballot measures -- archive going back to 1911
- California bills and laws
- LAO -- Legislative Analyst's Office -- analysis of CA issues
- Public Policy Institute of California -- California surveys and policy analysis
- News sites: CalMatters and Rough & Tumble
- CA elections from the Secretary of State
- California Elections Data Archive -- local elections in CA
- California State Library Digital Collections
- State archives
- California open data
General State Policy and Politics
- NCSL -- National Conference of State Legislatures -- analysis & data on state issues Partisan composition of legislatures
- Open States -- bill information for all state legislatures
- Urban Institute State Economic Monitor
- Ballotpedia
- Tax Foundation
- CRS
- CBO
- GAO
- GovInfo
- Budgets
- Biden White House Archives
- FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data
- Census
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
Crime
Health
National Elections, Parties, Campaign Finance
- Precinct-level national maps
- US Presidential Election Atlas -- just what the title says, great historical data (but note the unusual color scheme: red is D, blue is R)
- US Elections Project -- turnout data
- Open Secrets -- Center for Responsive Politics site for federal campaign finance and lobbying e information
- FEC -- Federal Election Commission
- FCC Public Inspection Files (ad buys on broadcast stations)
- Polling Report -- an aggregation of national poll data
- Gallup -- the best-known US pollster, delivering new numbers daily
- Pew Research Center
- 2018 exit poll
- 2020 exit poll
- 2024 exit poll
