Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Cool Data Alert: Voting Rights for Immigrants Across Countries (and Even More Locally) and Time

The GLOBALCIT Dataset of Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) covers voting and candidacy rights for both non-citizen residents and non-resident citizens. The dataset contains up to 488 indicators of voting rights across 165 countries from 1960 to 2020! 


More details (including the codebook and the actual data) here