R Tools for Political Measures

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) , Berry et al. (1998) , Cruz-Aceves and Mallinson (2019) , and Grossback et al. (2004) .