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Cross-national income database
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/03/09/cross-national-income-database/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 9, 2012 Luxembourg Income Database (LIS) http://www.lisdatacenter.
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Measuring Peace in the Media 2011
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/04/27/measuring-peace-in-the-media-2011/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 27, 2012 The Institute for Economics & Peace produces a number of indexes which measure levels of peace and conflict worldwide.
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American Presidential Nominations
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/09/07/american-presidential-nominations/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on September 7, 2012 The American presidency project http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/nomination.php has a database of presidential nomination acceptance speeches from 1880 onwards.
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Nielsen social media report 2012
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/12/18/nielsen-social-media-report-2012/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on December 18, 2012 Nielsen social media report 2012 , subtitled social media comes of age, focuses mainly on the USA & has good graphics showing total time spent and the most...
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Political Lobbying and PR
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/03/22/political-lobbying-and-pr/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 22, 2013 Interesting report issued by open.secrets.
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The UK and Migration
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/03/07/the-uk-and-migration/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 7, 2014 Impacts of Migration on UK Native Employment: An Analytical Review of the Evidence The Home Office finally released this week the controversial report by Ciaran Devlin and Olivia...
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Is there a gender pay gap?
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2017/01/06/is-there-a-gender-pay-gap/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on January 6, 2017 The latest report from the Resolution Foundation notes a reduction for women in their 20s but notes that over the career lifespan this widens.
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Anti-corruption
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2014/02/07/anti-corruption/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on February 7, 2014 EU launches major anti corruption report This surveys the situation in each of the member states, allowing cross country comparisons.
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UK Peace Index
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/04/26/uk-peace-index/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on April 26, 2013 According to the Institute for Economics and Peace, United Kingdom Peace Index http://www.visionofhumanity.
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Politwoops and other Twitter-related sites
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2013/05/10/politwoops-and-other-twitter-related-sites/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 10, 2013 Politwoops: (deleted tweets from politicians ) enables keyword searching for deleted tweets. It is offered in a number of countries.