Package: electoral
Type: Package
Title: Allocating Seats Methods and Party System Scores
Version: 0.1.4
Maintainer: Jorge Albuja <albuja@yahoo.com>
Authors@R: person(given = "Jorge",
                  family = "Albuja",
                  role = c("aut", "cre"),
                  email = "albuja@yahoo.com")
Description: Highest averages & largest remainders allocating seats methods and
    several party system scores.
    Implemented highest averages allocating seats methods are D'Hondt, Webster,
    Danish, Imperiali, Hill-Huntington, Dean, Modified Sainte-Lague,
    equal proportions and Adams.
    Implemented largest remainders allocating seats methods are Hare, Droop,
    Hangenbach-Bischoff, Imperial, modified Imperial and quotas & remainders.
    The main advantage of this package is that ties are always reported
    and not incorrectly allocated.
    Party system scores provided are competitiveness, concentration,
    effective number of parties, party nationalization score,
    party system nationalization score and volatility.
    References:
    Gallagher (1991) <doi:10.1016/0261-3794(91)90004-C>.
    Norris (2004, ISBN:0-521-82977-1).
    Laakso & Taagepera (1979) <https://escholarship.org/uc/item/703827nv>.
    Jones & Mainwaring (2003) <https://kellogg.nd.edu/sites/default/files/old_files/documents/304_0.pdf>.
    Pedersen (1979) <https://janda.org/c24/Readings/Pedersen/Pedersen.htm>.
    Golosov (2010) <doi:10.1177/1354068809339538>.
    Golosov (2014) <doi:10.1177/1354068814549342>.
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
Imports: dplyr, ineq, tibble
RoxygenNote: 6.0.1
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2025-05-01 00:56:02 UTC; jorgea
Author: Jorge Albuja [aut, cre]
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2025-05-01 05:00:02 UTC
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