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The following data sets are available for downloading:

Data sets are compressed into ZIP archives.  Each archive contains a "Readme" text file and one or more data files.  To access the data you will first need to extract the files using WinZip or a similar utility.  If you do not have WinZip you can download an evaluation copy by clicking HERE.   

  • Director interlocks among 100 large U.S. corporations in 1980.  Format:  UCINET data file.  Source:  U.S. Senate (1980), Structure of Corporate Concentration: Institutional Shareholders and Interlocking Directorates Among Major U.S. Corporations.  Download:  DIRECT80.ZIP (4k).

  • Director interlocks among 12 leading policy-planning organizations in 1980.  Format:  UCINET data files.  Source:  Val Burris (1992), "Elite Policy-Planning Networks in the United States." Research in Politics and Society, Volume 4, The Political Consequences of Social Networks, edited by Gwen Moore and J. Allen Whitt.  Download:  POLI80.ZIP (2k).

  • Network analysis of corporate political action.  Format: text file with data in fixed columns.  Source: Mark S. Mizruchi (1992), The Structure of Corporate Political Action. Download: MIZRUCHI.ZIP (93k).

  • PAC contributions by 443 large U.S. firms in 1982.  Format: SPSS and Excel data files.  Source: Val Burris (1987), "The Political Partisanship of American Business." American Sociological Review, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 732-744.  Download: PACS1982.ZIP (68k).

This page is still under construction.  In the future it will provide visitors with the ability to download a wide variety of data sets in the field of power structure research.  It you have data that you would like to contribute to the archive, please e-mail me.

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