Psephology

Quantitative scientific analysis of elections and balloting

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We include updates on Swing state, Voter turnout in United States presidential elections, List of United States presidential elections in which the winner lost the popular vote, List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin, Cook Partisan Voting Index, Ranked voting, List of United States presidential election results by state, Bradley effect, Missouri bellwether, V-Dem Democracy Indices, Strategic voting, Polity data series, As Maine goes, so goes the nation, Rated voting, Shy Tory factor, List of elections involving vote splitting ... and more.

February 2020
Polity data series
The Political Instability Task Force (PITF) sponsorship of the Polity data series ends in February.
2018
Polity data series
Comprehensive global democracy and autocracy scoring was conducted for multiple countries using the Polity IV methodology, categorizing nations into regime types such as Full Democracy, Democracy, Open Anocracy, Closed Anocracy, and Autocracy.

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