Links to Related Sites
Content Analysis
- William Evans' content analysis web page
- Harald Klein's text analysis software page
- Kimberly Neuendorf's "The Content Analysis Guidebook Online"
- Assessment and Development of New Methods for the Analysis of Media Content site (Loughborough University, UK)
Conflict Datasets
- EUGene: Expected Utility Generation and Data Management Program (D. Scott Bennett and Allan C. Stam)
- Gary King's data site
- Correlates of War 2 Project (Pennsylvania State University)
- European Protest and Coercion Data (Ronald Francisco)
- UCDP/PRIO Armed Conflict Dataset
- Uppsala Conflict Database
- ACLED: Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (Centre for the Study of Civil War, Oslo)
- Polity Data Archive (Monty Marshall and Keith Jaggers)
- Political Instability Task Force
- Minorities at Risk Project (University of Maryland)
- Conflict Early Warning Systems (Hayward R. Alker and Kumar Rupesinghe)
- International Crisis Behavior Data Archive (Jonathan Wilkenfeld)
- International Relations and Security Network (Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research, ETH Zurich)
- Paul Hensel's international relations and political science data links
- Christian Davenport's "Radical Information Project" data page
- Rudolph J. Rummel's "Freedom,Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War" site Also: Rummel's Appendix on Event Data (1979)
Current Humanitarian Crises
- ReliefWeb Home Page (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
- AlertNet (Reuter Foundation's news and communications service for the emergency relief community)
- Economics and Conflict E-Library (Harvard University Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research)
Assorted Political Science Sites
- Working Papers Sites for Political Science (Patrick Fagan)
- Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
- APSA Political Methodology Section
- International Studies Association
- University of Kansas Department of Political Science
Miscellaneous Lawrence, Kansas Sites
- University of Kansas
- Interactive Map of University of Kansas
- City of Lawrence
- Lawrence Convention and Visitors Bureau (includes links to local hotels)
- Yoga Center of Lawrence
- Southwinds Health Collective
- Community Mercantile
- Text of Henry M. Littlefield's 1964 American Quarterly essay that interprets the Wizard of Oz as an allegory on the Populist Movement. (You thought it was a children's story?)
The PANDA Project
A much more extensive KEDS-coded event data set is now available from the Protocol for the Analysis of Nonviolent Direct Action (PANDA) at the Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival in the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University (Bond, Bennett and Vogele, 1994).Also check out the 10 Million International Dyadic Events link at Gary King's data site.
PANDA's data set uses a superset of the WEIS coding scheme that provides greater detail in internal political events, and contains about 500,000 events covering the entire world (using Reuters leads) for the period 1984-present. The PANDA project has also developed dictionaries that are substantially more detailed than ours and are probably preferable if you are planning a major research project; the data are available from PANDA at the cost of production (email contact: doug.bond@vranet.com).
Bond and several associates, working through the company Virtual Research Associates, have developed a commercial event coding system and several information management and data visualization programs for the Windows operating system. VRA. The system is currently being used by UNICEF and several government agencies for monitoring political and economic activity.
The other major development by Bond and his collaborators is the IDEA -- Integrated Data for Events Analysis -- coding system. This will supercede the PANDA coding scheme, and more is designed to provide a general framework for coding events.
"The IDEA event form typology is a conceptual framework for use in coding social, economic and political events data. The IDEA framework is an extension and a refinement of, and is congruent with the World Event / Interaction Survey or WEIS. Like WEIS, IDEA is nominally scaled, but unlike WEIS the event forms in IDEA are not bound to state actors (though some event forms are intrinsically bound to specific actors like military forces, as in military engagement). For example, the WEIS reduction in relations event form represents a diplomatic behavior and is therefore restricted to inter-state behavior, but the IDEA equivalent, reduce routine activity, refers to such reductions by individuals, groups or organizations, both state and non-state. (http://vranet.com/idea/; accessed 31 May 2001)
Follow this link for more information on IDEA.