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A dataset containing detailed information on the apportionment methods used in major democratic countries.

Usage

data(apportionment_methods)

Format

A tibble with 11 columns

  • method, method_family : name of method and method's family.

  • region: region or country.

  • type_elec: type of elections.

  • constituency, constituency_type: constituency where method is applied and type of constituency (multi or single member).

  • candidate_ranking: method to chose the order of candidates.

  • threshold: threshold to obtain seats.

  • party_list: closed, open or semi-open lists.

  • notes: explanatory notes.

  • biblio: link to bibliography.

Author

Irene Bosque-Gala and Javier Alvarez-Liebana.

Examples

# Load data
data(apportionment_methods)