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REPLICATION MATERIALS
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This folder contains the files needed to reproduce the results reported in: 

Lu, Xiao. "Strategic Postponement of Coalition Policymaking in European Parliamentary Democracies". European Journal of Political Research. 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
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DATA:

"dat_raw.RData": The main data for the main empirical tests presented in the main text.

"main_circular_data.RData": Replication data of König et al., 2022. 

CODES:

1. "EJPR_replication_main.R": The main codes to generate tables and figures included in the main text (Figure 4-7; Table 1). Total estimation time: About 10 mins.

2. "EJPR_replication_appendix.R": The codes to generate tables and figures included in the supplementary material (Figure C1, D1, D2; Table B1, C1, D1-9). Total estimation time: About 2 hours.

3. "EJPR_replication_game.R": Numeric simulations of the game-theoretical model. Codes to generate Figure 3 and Figure A1-14. Total estimation time: About 5 mins.

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INSTRUCTIONS:
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Please make sure that all the required packages have been installed before running the codes.

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# OPERATION SYSTEM AND SOFTWARE MODULE
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# Operating system: Mac OS, Apple Silicon

# R Version: 4.3.1

# Version of the R packages:

circglmbayes ‘1.3.0’
dplyr ‘1.1.3’
ggplot2 ‘3.4.3’
ggthemes ‘4.2.4’
stargazer ‘5.2.3’
coda ‘0.19.4’
ggrepel ‘0.9.4’
xtable ‘1.8.4’

