R/brazil.R

In politicsR: Calculating Political System Metrics

#' Brazilian Lower Chamber Electoral Results
#'
#' A dataset containing data on electoral results for the Brazilian lower chamber
#' by party and by state from 1990 to 2018. The variables include country name,
#' year and month of election, electoral district name and code, party name and code, and party vote share.
#'
#' @format ## `brazil`
#' A data frame with rows and columns:
#' \describe{
#'   \item{ctr_n}{Country name}
#'   \item{yr}{Year of election}
#'   \item{mn}{Month of election}
#'   \item{cst_n}{Name of electoral district}
#'   \item{cst}{Code of electoral district}
#'   \item{pty_n}{Party name}
#'   \item{pty}{Party code}
#'   \item{pvs1}{Party vote share}
#' }
#'
#' @details
#'
#' This dataset is part of the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA) project,
#' a repository that provides detailed election results at the constituency level
#' for lower chamber and upper chamber legislative elections from around the world.
#'
#' @source <https://electiondataarchive.org/>
#'
#' @return
#' This dataset is part of the Constituency-Level Elections Archive (CLEA). Brazilian Lower Chamber Electoral Results
#'
#'
#' @references
#'
#' Kollman, K., Hicken, A., Caramani, D., Backer, D., & Lublin, D. (2019). Constituency-level elections archive [data file and codebook]. Ann Arbor, MI: Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan [producer and distributor]. Retrieved from http://www.electiondataarchive.org.
#'
"brazil"