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Politics and elections data

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Trust in election processes and government function are vital to democratic society, with the need to perform and disseminate research into their workings crucial for improving our understanding and awareness of democratic functions. However, access to data at sufficient levels of privacy, granularity and temporal/regional specificity can very across jurisdictions, limiting our ability to such conduct studies. This article Collection aims to showcase recent efforts in election and political science data creation, describing datasets sourced from primary government data sources or quantitative research methods with the aim of advancing areas such as of policy, political engagement and other fields.

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This Collection welcomes submissions of Data Descriptors (full information on content types can be found here). Papers will be published in Scientific Data as soon as they are accepted and then collected together and promoted on the Collection homepage. All Guest Edited Collections are associated with a call for papers and are managed by one or more of our Editorial Board Members and the journal's Editors.

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