Here you find a couple of further useful links. And don’t forget: If you get stuck, I am sure someone else had the same problem before — so hit Google!
- Kai Arzheimer’s errartic bibliography of research on the extreme right and their voters in Europe: www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right-western-europe-bibliography
- Data as well as R and Stata code for all examples discussed in Snijders and Bosker (2012) can be found here: www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~snijders/mlbook.htm
- Other multilevel analysis textbooks that you might find helpful: Gelman and Hill (2007) with a focus on R, Rabe-Hesketh and Skrondal (2008) with a focus on Stata, Hox (2010) tends to be less technical.
Country data
For many of these data there are R APIs which you can find my using google. There is, for example,and R API for the Freedom House Index or for much of the OECD or WorldBank data. For Stata you will need to download the data by hand, unfortunately.
Multilevel/-country survey data
- World Values Survey of +100 countries around the world surveyed since 1981 until today! Focus lies on values, norms, and basically Inglehard’s modernization theory.
- Afrobarometer: African-led survey research of 37 African countries since 1999. Focus of the surveys lies on public attitudes on democracy, governance, the economy and society.
- Arab Barometer
- Latino Barómetro
References
Gelman, Andrew, and Jennifer Hill. 2007. Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchichal Models. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hox, J. J. 2010. Multilevel Analysis: Techniques and Applications. London: Routledge.
Rabe-Hesketh, Sophia, and Anders Skrondal. 2008. Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling Using Stata. College Station: Stata Press.
Snijders, Tom A. B., and Roel J. Bosker. 2012. Multilevel Analysis: An Introduction to Basic and Advanced Multilevel Modeling. London: Sage.