nopp-package {nopp}R Documentation

Nash Optimal Party Positions

Description

Estimation of party/candidate ideological positions that correspond to a Nash equilibrium along a one-dimensional space

Details

Package: nopp
Type: Package
Version: 1.0
Date: 2012-06-26
License: GPL (>= 2)

nopp is a package for R which enables to compute party/candidate ideological positions that correspond to a Nash Equilibrium along a one-dimensional space. It accommodates alternative motivations in (each) party strategy while allowing to estimate the uncertainty around their optimal positions through two different procedures (bootstrap and MC).

Author(s)

Luigi Curini, Stefano M. Iacus

Maintainer: Luigi Curini <luigi.curini@unimi.it>, Stefano M. Iacus <stefano.iacus@unimi.it>

References

Adams, James F., Samuel Merrill III, and Bernard Grofman (2005). A Unified Theory of Party Competition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Merrill, Samuel III, and James Adams (2001), Computing Nash Equilibria in Probabilistic, Multiparty Spatial Models with Nonpolicy Components, Political Analysis, 9, 347–61

Curini, L., and Iacus, S.M. (2017) Nash Optimal Party Positions: The nopp R Package, Journal of Statistical Software, 81(11), 1–25


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