Data sets tagged with "politics"

Campaign Finance Reports and Data

The Federal Election Commission provides information on various campaign expenditures through databases, reports, and a disclosure data catalog. Some of the information included is candidate, PAC, and party summaries, disclosure reports filed electronically by House and Presidential campaigns, parties and PACs, actual financial disclosure reports filed by House, Senate ...
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EUROPARL - Europeal Parliament - Register of Documents

About Documents from European Parliament. Documents that are ‘directly accessible’ include: Documents relating to parliamentary activity European Parliament general information documents Official documents forwarded by other institutions Documents from third parties See ...
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Opensecrets.org - Money in Politics Data

Description ‘Your Guide to Money in US Elections’. Includes databases covering money spent on: 527s Contributions Lobbying PACs Travel Also has a ‘revolving door’ database: > Track the movements of well-connected individuals between government and private interests in this searchable database of more than 6,400 people. See which influential lobbyists and ...
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Welcome to USAspending.gov

A single searchable website, accessible to the public at no cost, which includes for each Federal award the name of the entity receiving the award; the amount of the award; information on the award including transaction type, funding agency, etc; the location of the entity receiving the award; and a unique identifier of the entity receiving the award. Prime award ...
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Members of the European Parliament (5th parliamentary term - 1999 to 2004)

List of MEP (Members of the European Parliament) in the 4th term from 1999-2004. It includes the name, web profile ID and political group membership. The data has been obtained from the official website of the parliament: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive/term5.do?language=EN. The ID can be used to access each MEP’s profile via ...
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Members of the European Parliament (4th parliamentary term - 1994–1999)

List of MEP (Members of the European Parliament) in the 4th term from 1994-1999. It includes the name, web profile ID and political group membership. The data has been obtained from the official website of the parliament: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/archive/term4.do?language=EN. The ID can be used to access each MEP’s profile via ...
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Sunlight Foundation

The Sunlight Foundation is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that uses the power of the Internet to catalyze greater government openness and transparency, and provides new tools and resources for media and citizens, alike. The are committed to improving access to government information by making it available online, indeed redefining “public” information as ...
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Political blogs

A directed network of hyperlinks between weblogs on US politics, recorded in 2005 by Adamic and Glance. Please cite L. A. Adamic and N. Glance, “The political blogosphere and the 2004 US Election”, in Proceedings of the WWW-2005 Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem (2005). Thanks to Lada Adamic for permission to post these data on this web site.
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Books about U.S. Politics

A network of books about US politics published around the time of the 2004 presidential election and sold by the online bookseller Amazon.com. Edges between books represent frequent copurchasing of books by the same buyers. The network was compiled by V. Krebs and is unpublished, but can found on Krebs’ web site.
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