The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), located within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Colgate is a member and data not available on the Internet can be requested from the University representative. Inquire in the Economics Department. Although the majority of the data deal with the U.S., significant data sets are available for other countries.

Five decades of data on voting, public opinion, and political participation.

Contains a standard 'core' of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest, including voting behavior. Many of the core questions have remained unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time-trend studies. SPSS/STATA downloads.

This ongoing project represents collaboration between the American Antiquarian Society and Tufts University Digital Collection and Archives. Users can navigate over to the Quick Search function, or they can also browse by candidate, office, year, or state. Data may be downloaded for offline analysis

Data mining the Congressional Record, Capitol Words collates the most frequently used words or phrases and visually represents their usage chronologically and by party, state, and mentions by particulate legislators; with link to full text of the online record, displaying the full citation and related entries providing background context for the remarks.