This is a collection of data and functions for common metrics in political science research. Data measuring ideology, and functions calculating geographical diffusion and ideological diffusion - geog.diffuse() and ideo.dist(), respectively. Functions derived from methods developed in: Soule and King (2006) <doi:10.1086/499908>, Berry et al. (1998) <doi:10.2307/2991759>, Cruz-Aceves and Mallinson (2019) <doi:10.1177/0160323X20902818>, and Grossback et al. (2004) <doi:10.1177/1532673X04263801>.

Bundles the datasets and functions used in the textbook by Philip
    Pollock and Barry Edwards, an R Companion to Essentials of Political Analysis,
    Second Edition.

Authentication, user administration, hosting, and additional infrastructure for 'shiny' apps. See
  <https://polished.tech> for additional documentation and examples.

A very small package for more convenient use of 'NaileR'. You provide a data set containing a latent variable you want to understand. It generates a description and an interpretation of this latent variable using a Large Language Model. For perceptual data, it describes the stimuli used in the experiment.

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Detecting markers of politeness in English natural language. This package allows researchers to easily visualize and quantify politeness between groups of documents. This package combines prior research on the linguistic markers of politeness. We thank the Spencer Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, and Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science for support.

A toolbox to facilitate the calculation of political system indicators for researchers. 
    This package offers a variety of basic indicators related to electoral systems, party systems, elections,
    and parliamentary studies, as well as others. Main references are:
    Loosemore and Hanby (1971) <doi:10.1017/S000712340000925X>;
    Gallagher (1991) <doi:10.1016/0261-3794(91)90004-C>;
    Laakso and Taagepera (1979) <doi:10.1177/001041407901200101>;
    Rae (1968) <doi:10.1177/001041406800100305>;
    Hirschmaņ (1945) <ISBN:0-520-04082-1>;
    Kesselman (1966) <doi:10.2307/1953769>;
    Jones and Mainwaring (2003) <doi:10.1177/13540688030092002>;
    Rice (1925) <doi:10.2307/2142407>;
    Pedersen (1979) <doi:10.1111/j.1475-6765.1979.tb01267.x>;
    SANTOS (2002) <ISBN:85-225-0395-8>.