Regionalismo: Dimensionality of voting. Regionalism

In Relectoral: Electoral Analysis

Description

With this function we calculate the regionalism indexes described in the book "Analysis of electoral data" from Pablo Oñate y Francisco A. Ocaña (page 48). The reader is referred to this publication in order to understand the meaning of the indicators computed with this function. More precisely, the Regionalist Voting Index (VRta), the Differentiated Regionalist Voting Index (VRtaD), and the Differentiated Regional Voting Index (VRD) will be calculated.

Usage

Regionalismo(
  Ano = 0,
  Mes = "",
  RutaDescarga = "",
  Auto = TRUE,
  datos = "",
  PANES = "",
  Generate_PANES = FALSE
)

Arguments

Ano	It is the year of the electoral process to be dealt with. It must be a four-digit numerical value. If a manual procedure is used, no value is needed for this parameter.
Mes	It is the month of the electoral process, it must be a string with two numerical characters, associated with the month in which the elections took place. If a manual procedure is used, no value is required for this parameter.
RutaDescarga	It should be a string indicating the way to download the file from the Spanish Ministry of Home Office. This file is automatically removed if the process finish successfully. The user has to be aware that the path provided must correspond to a computer location where the user has read and write permissions, otherwise the process will not be completed. If a manual procedure is used, no value is required for this parameter.
Auto	It can take the logical values TRUE or FALSE. By default, it has the value TRUE to indicate that the user wants the process to be automatic. In the case of wanting a manual process, this parameter will take the value FALSE.
datos	In this parameter you must enter the values that will be processed if manual processing is chosen, i.e. "Auto=FALSE". It must be a data.frame with the following structure: The first column must contain the name of the intermediate unit (in the case of Spain the autonomous regions), in the second column must include the name of the lower units (in the case of Spain the name of the provinces), and then there must be a column for each political party containing the votes obtained by that party in each lower unit (for Spain in each province). The value of the name for each of these columns must be the acronyms that identify each political party.
PANES	Here the user should provide the complete path of the csv-type file containing, for each party, the information on whether that party is regionalist or not. "1" will denote that the party is regionalist or nationalist and "0" that it is not. These values will appear in the second column of that csv file. The first column must have the acronym of each political party under study.
Generate_PANES	A boolean type parameter, by default its value is FALSE. In case it is TRUE, the csv file indicated in the "PANES" parameter will be generated. The first line of this file will be the following: "PARTIES,PANE", which will be the name of the variables with which the function will work internally. In this case, the csv file generated will contain a column with the acronyms of the political parties, and then, manually, "1" will be written down if the match is "PANE" (nationalist or regionalist party) and 0 if it is "NO PANE" (non-nationalist or non-regionalist party). That is to say, with the parameter Generate_PANES = TRUE, a help system is obtained to obtain the file that must be passed with the "PANES" parameter. But this csv file can also be generated in a completely manual way, if the user wishes.

Value

It returns a list of all the indicators obtained with this function. This initial list, in turn, contains two other lists:

1. VRtaD. It is composed of three other lists, each one containing a data.frame with the following information: $VRta_Provincias: contains the values of the VRta indicator at the lowest level (in the case of Spain, the provinces). $VRta_CCAA contains the VRta indicator at the intermediate level (in the case of Spain, at an autonomous region level). $VRtaD contains the indicator VRtaD at the lowest level.

2. VRD. Composed of three other lists, each one containing a data.frame with the following information: $inferior_medio contains the VRD value of the lower level (provinces in Spain) with respect to the intermediate level (autonomous regions in Spain). $inferior_superior contains the VRD value for the lower level with respect to the upper level (State level). $medio_superior contains the value of the VRD index at the intermediate level with respect to the upper one.

Examples

r <- Regionalismo(Ano=2019,Mes = "11",RutaDescarga = "F:/",
 PANES = system.file("regionalismo","Regionalismo.csv", package="Relectoral"))

Relectoral documentation built on July 2, 2020, 2:31 a.m.