install_python

install_python() uses reticulate to create or activate a Python virtual environment and install the required packages for running spacyr (sentence tokenization) and huggingfaceR (issue-area classification via ManifestoBERTA).

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) <doi: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) <doi:10.1111/j.1540-5907.2008.00338.x>.

Theodore Gercken

minorparties

Quantitatively Analyze Minor Political Parties

install_python function

<dl><dt>env_name</dt>
<dd>Character. Name of the Python virtual environment to set up. Defaults to "iscores".</dd>
<dt>manifestoberta_model_id</dt>
<dd>Character. Version of the ManifestoBERTA model to load (must match a valid model). Defaults to "2024-1-1".</dd></dl>

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Set up the python tools required for calculating I-Scores — install_python

<dl>

<dt>env_name</dt>
<dd>Character. Name of the Python virtual environment to set up. Defaults to "iscores".</dd>


<dt>manifestoberta_model_id</dt>
<dd>Character. Version of the ManifestoBERTA model to load (must match a valid model). Defaults to "2024-1-1".</dd>

</dl>

install_python: Set up the python tools required for calculating I-Scores

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