voteR: Tools for creating social choice models.
In robiRagan/voteR: Spatial Voting Models in R

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This package lets a researcher create, explore and analyze different social choice models. There are four main components of the package are generating voters, spatial voting models, voting rules and modeling tools.

Researcher interested in analyzing electoral and policy making systems (i.e. legislatures) should look at the related legislatuR package.

1) Generating Voters A set of tools for generating sets of voters (see ?genVoter).

2) Multidimensional Spatial Models A set of tools for exploring multidimensional spatial voting models (see ?spatialModel).

3) Voting Rules A large set of voting rules/social choice rules/preference aggregation mechanisms (see ?votingRule)

4) Modeling A set of modeling tools that allow a researcher to combine (1), (2) and/or (3) in varying combinanations, to analyzie a wide range of social choice phenomona. A user may also use any of the four components in combination with their own code. (?)

Some possible ways to use the tools provided in this package are: Exploring simple one-period voting models. Creating static models of overlaping voting rules. Exploring dynamic simulations ar agent-based models. (see ?spatialModel ?dynamicModel)

Ragan, Robi (2017). "Social Choice Simulations". Working Paper, http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~rragan/software.htm/.

robiRagan/voteR documentation built on Feb. 27, 2020, 6:48 p.m.