electoral - Allocating Seats Methods and Party System Scores
Highest averages & largest remainders allocating seats
methods and several party system scores. Implemented highest
averages allocating seats methods are D'Hondt, Webster, Danish,
Imperiali, Hill-Huntington, Dean, Modified Sainte-Lague, equal
proportions and Adams. Implemented largest remainders
allocating seats methods are Hare, Droop, Hangenbach-Bischoff,
Imperial, modified Imperial and quotas & remainders. The main
advantage of this package is that ties are always reported and
not incorrectly allocated. Party system scores provided are
competitiveness, concentration, effective number of parties,
party nationalization score, party system nationalization score
and volatility. References: Gallagher (1991)
<doi:10.1016/0261-3794(91)90004-C>. Norris (2004,
ISBN:0-521-82977-1). Consejo Nacional Electoral del Ecuador
(2014)<http://cne.gob.ec/documents/Estadisticas/Atlas/ATLAS/CAPITULO%206%20web.pdf>.
Laakso & Taagepera (1979)
<https://escholarship.org/uc/item/703827nv>. Jones & Mainwaring
(2003)
<https://kellogg.nd.edu/sites/default/files/old_files/documents/304_0.pdf>.
Pedersen (1979)
<https://janda.org/c24/Readings/Pedersen/Pedersen.htm>. Golosov
(2010) <https://ppq.sagepub.com/content/16/2/171.abstract>.
Golosov (2014)
<https://ppq.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/09/08/1354068814549342.abstract>.