Data Gathering Made Easy: TPR Data Bulletins

In: State politics & policy quarterly: the official journal of the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 84-89

Abstract

The need to develop a system of collecting & circulating data concerning state politics is articulated. Although data regarding state politics have become more available during the late 20th century, it is argued that methods for collocating & disseminating such data remain inadequate. Three problems that have arisen from this failure to properly categorize state politics data are identified, eg, using informal networks for gathering information may reduce the empirical quality of state politics data. Consequently, it is announced that the journal State Politics & Policy Quarterly has initiated measures to periodically inform scholars about existing state politics data, especially from sources available via the Internet. Short synopses of the content of several Web sites that have state politics data readily available are also provided. 3 References. J. W. Parker