voting: Function to simulate the voting process

In i3pack: Incentives for Inter- And Intra-Party Electoral Competition

Function to simulate the voting process

Description

Internal function.

Usage

voting(
  voters,
  nominated,
  n_votes,
  gamma_val,
  gamma_rank,
  epsilon,
  free = TRUE,
  closed_primary = FALSE,
  strategic = FALSE,
  strategic_error = 0.05,
  party_pos = NULL
)

Arguments

voters	See simulate_election().
nominated	See simulate_election().
n_votes	See simulate_election().
gamma_val	See simulate_election().
gamma_rank	See simulate_election().
epsilon	Numeric; maximum acceptable ideological distance used in voters' utility function
free	See simulate_election(). Defaults to TRUE.
closed_primary	Boolean: Are voters required to vote for a candidate in the party closest to them in the primary? Defaults to FALSE.
strategic	See simulate_election().
strategic_error	See simulate_election(). Defaults to 0.05
party_pos	Locations of parties in the election in 1d space (-2, 2).

Value

List with two elements:

votes

Matrix with n_votes rows and length(voters) columns, with cells populated with candidate IDs

max_utils

Vector of maximum utilities received by each voter from among all candidates in the election

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