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type: software
license: GPL-3.0-or-later
title: 'minorparties: Quantitatively Analyze Minor Political Parties'
version: 1.0.0
doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.minorparties
abstract: Tools for calculating I-Scores, a simple way to measure how successful minor
  political parties are at influencing the major parties in their environment. I-Scores
  are designed to be a more comprehensive measurement of minor party success than
  vote share and legislative seats won, the current standard measurements, which do
  not reflect the strategies that most minor parties employ. The procedure leverages
  the Manifesto Project's NLP model to identify the issue areas that sentences discuss,
  see Burst et al. (2024) <https://doi.org/10.25522/manifesto.manifestoberta.56topics.context.2024.1.1>,
  and the Wordfish algorithm to estimate the relative positions that platforms take
  on those issue areas, see Slapin and Proksch (2008) <https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2008.00338.x>.
authors:
- family-names: Gercken
  given-names: Theodore
  email: tgercken@hamilton.edu
repository: https://gerckentheodore.r-universe.dev
commit: 54981ce9c2bdce98cd8ce6734b57f2815b03e011
url: https://gerckentheodore.github.io/minorparties/
date-released: '2025-10-29'
contact:
- family-names: Gercken
  given-names: Theodore
  email: tgercken@hamilton.edu