This web site constitutes an experiment on the payoffs of pursing a more centralized data infrastructure for researchers interested in state politics and policy. The heart of the web site is a series of data sets than include more than 50 state-level indicators on everything from crime rates to unified partisan control of state government. Many of these variables are available not only by state, but by time for a 20-year period (approximately 1974 to 1999). The web site is sponsored by The Practical Researcher section of State Politics & Policy Quarterly, the official journal of the State Politics and Policy Organized Section of the American Political Science Association, and the Department of Political Science of the University of Lincoln Nebraska .

Conditions of Use
This is a free and publicly accessible service, and anyone can download the data sets that are posted. We do request if you use this service that you cite it. The suggested citations is: State Politics & Policy Quarterly Data Resource; http://www.ku.edu/pri/SPPQ/. We also strongly encourage anyone who would like to see this service continued and expanded to subscribe to the State Politics & Policy Quarterly and to consider contributing to The Practical Research section of the journal . Just follow the link to the SPPQ homepage for subscription information, and the Practical Researcher link to get more information on its mission and how to submit an article.

New Data Links are Now Available!

NEW! List of Experts in the 50 American States.

Links to several websites that contain state-level data have been added to the links page.--2/21/02

The Revised Dataset is Now Available!

The dataset has been updated.  Some changes and revisions have been made, as well as new variables added.--12/4/01

Any queries, comments or, especially, data correction information should be directed to Don Haider-Markel, prex@ku.edu.

Last updated: September 29, 2006