R/esaps-package.R

In esaps: Indicators of Electoral Systems and Party Systems

#' @description It allows structuring electoral data of different size and structure
#'     to calculate various indicators frequently used in the studies of electoral
#'     systems and party systems:
#'         \itemize{
#'
#'                 \item{Electoral Volatility:}
#'                 \itemize{
#'                         \item{\href{https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1475-6765.1979.tb01267.x}{Pedersen (1979)} <doi:10.1111/j.1475-6765.1979.tb01267.x>}
#'                         \item{\href{https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/revisiting-electoral-volatility-in-post-communist-countries-new-data-new-results-and-new-approaches/46E14577C9EB765C7BED1A9EA657005F}{Powell and Tucker (2014)} <doi:10.1017/S0007123412000531>}
#'                         \item{\href{https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1354068818795191}{Lago and Torcal (2019)}  <doi:10.1177/1354068818795191>}
#'                 }
#'                 \item{Effective Number of Parties:}
#'                 \itemize{
#'                         \item{\href{https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/001041407901200101}{Laakso and Taagepera (1979)} <doi:10.1177/001041407901200101>}
#'                 }
#'
#'                 \item{Electoral disproportionality:}
#'                 \itemize{
#'                         \item{Rae (1971, ISBN:9780300015171)}
#'                         \item{\href{https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/theoretical-limits-of-maximum-distortion-some-analytic-expressions-for-electoral-systems/77CE5C85BDDDE59036B7E91D81FBF87E}{Loosemore and Hanby (1971)} <doi:10.1017/S000712340000925X>}
#'                         \item{Lijphart (1986, ISBN:0875860648, 0875860745)}
#'                         \item{\href{https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198273479.001.0001/acprof-9780198273479}{Lijphart} (1994) <doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198273479.001.0001>}
#'                         \item{\href{https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/026137949190025N?via\%3Dihub}{Cox and Shugart (1991)} <doi:10.1016/0261-3794(91)90025-N>}
#'                         \item{\href{https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/026137949190004C?via\%3Dihub}{Gallagher (1991)} <doi:10.1016/0261-3794(91)90004-C>}
#'                         }
#'
#'                 \item{Party System Nationalization:}
#'                 \itemize{
#'                         \item{\href{https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13540688030092002}{Mainwaring and Jones (2003)} <doi:10.1177/13540688030092002>}
#'                         \item{\href{https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9781400826377/the-formation-of-national-party-systems}{Chhibber and Kollman} (2004, ISBN:9781400826377)}
#'                         }
#'                         }
#'
#'
#'
#' @name esaps-package
#' @docType package
#' @title Indicators of Electoral Systems and Party Systems
#' @keywords Political science
#' @seealso  Useful link: \url{https://nicolas-schmidt.github.io/esaps/index.html}
#' @author Nicolas Schmidt \email{nschmidt@cienciassociales.edu.uy}
#'
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