Castro Speech Database The LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center) web site hosts this excellent free resource. Researchers at the Radio Martà Program, part of the U.S. Information Agency, have digitized the speeches (translated into English) from the FBIS collection. Discursos e intervenciones del Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz, Presidente del Consejo de Estado…
People frequently come to the library looking for the FBIS collection of translated foreign documents. It is a little tricky to navigate, so I’m posting some pointers here. What is it? Full explanation of the FBIS reports, JPRS reports and World News Connection from the University of Michigan Documents Center. Readex is the company that…
Q: I need to find some examples of surveys or scales for a social research methods class. A: Searching for scales, measures, questionnaires can range from really straightforward to tricky. If you want to browse surveys you know to be available to you, search a data repository like ICPSR or the web sites of government…
Two datasets on electoral institutions, one describing 867 legislative elections and the other describing 294 presidential elections. Another dataset combining the first two in country-year format is also available. “The dataset covers a wide range of institutional features including regime type, the electoral formula, the average and median district magnitude, the number of constituencies and…