Simulating Party Shares

Abstract We tackle the problem of simulating seat- and vote-shares for a party system given size. show how these shares can be generated using unordered ordered Dirichlet distributions. that distribution with mean vector by rule described in Taagepera Allik (2006, Electoral Studies 25, 696–713) fits real-world data almost as well saturated model where there is parameter each rank/system size combination.