POL 569/POL669/GGS469 LGBTI Politics subjectId: 690095

WHAT PARTY WAS in power in the LEGISLATIVE BRANCH? The International Parliamentary Union's Parline Database can tell you. Go here: http://ipu.org/parline-e/parlinesearch.asp and select the country of interest (if it is a parliamentary system you will want to choose the lower house of parliament; if presidential you'll want to check both houses if there are more than 1). Then if your policy was recently passed, go to the "General Information" or "Last Election" tabs to learn more. If your policy was passed a while ago, click on "Election Archive" and then select the right time period. In many instances this source will also tell you the PERCENT WOMEN in the parliament.

If you want to know what PARTY controlled the EXECUTIVE BRANCH of a contemporary case, see the CIA's World Leaders Database: https://aleph.occrp.org/datasets/1305 For historical cases see the IPU's Election Archive to determine who won a given election.

If you want to see how your country stacks up internationally in terms of the % WOMEN IN THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH go to the IPU's Women in Parliaments Database (http://ipu.org/wmn-e/world.htm). From there you can either select the % women in each parliament link if your topic is contemporary. If your topic is historical click on the "Archive of Statistical Data" link and get the appropriate month/year.

For a list of OPENLY LGBT ELECTED OFFICIALS see here: https://www.queerpolitics.org/data-1

If you want to know about the LEVEL OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT in a country between 1980 and the present (i.e., whether it is agrarian "low human development," industrial, or post-industrial "very high human development") you can use the UN's Human Development Index: https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index#/indicies/HDI. You can also learn more about the country's contemporary economy from the CIA World Factbook (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/)

The UN also keeps data on women's equality: https://worlds-women-2020-data-undesa.hub.arcgis.com/

To measure GENDER OPPORUNITY STRUCTURES you can use the UN's GENDER INEQUALITY INDEX: http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/gender-inequality-index.

To measure THE LEVEL OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY in a country: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI

The World Bank keeps other economic statistics: http://datatopics.worldbank.org/gender/

To get public opinion data about people's BELIEFS AND VALUES about gender and other issues you can use the World Values Survey data like Inglehart and Norris did: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp . Go to "online analysis" to get information about your country. Alternatively, you could look at this study by the Pew Research Center: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/06/25/global-divide-on-homosexuality-persists/ (Click on the top right corner to download the complete report).

Do you want to see what an ACTIVIST GROUP’S WEBSITE said IN THE PAST? Try locating in the “Wayback” machine: http://archive.org/web/

Do you want to know HOW DEMOCRATIC a country is or was at the time your event occurred? Try looking for data at the Freedom House: https://freedomhouse.org/reports

If you want to know the percentage of people in a country that follow a certain RELIGION you can look to the CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/ . Select the country of your choice and open the “People and Society” tab to find out this and other information.

The CIA World Factbook also keeps information about LITERACY RATES and URBANIZATION (both indicators go along with modernization theory). Go here https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/, select your country, and you can find this information in the People and Society section.