Social Influence with Recurrent Mobility with multiple options

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss the possible generalizations of the Social Influence with Recurrent Mobility (SIRM) model developed in Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 158701 (2014). Although the SIRM model worked approximately satisfying when US election was modelled, it has its limits: it has been developed only for two-party systems and can lead to unphysical behaviour when one of the parties has extreme vote share close to 0 or 1. We propose here generalizations to the SIRM model by its extension for multi-party systems that are mathematically well-posed in case of extreme vote shares, too, by handling the noise term in a different way. In addition, we show that our method opens new applications for the study of elections by using a new calibration procedure, and makes possible to analyse the influence of the "free will" (creating a new party) and other local effects for different commuting network topologies.

arXiv comment10 pages, 6 figures

References in corpus (28)

• Statistical physics of social dynamics
• Voter Model on Heterogeneous Graphs
• Voter Models on Heterogeneous Networks
• Does a Single Zealot Affect an Infinite Group of Voters ?
• On the Role of Zealotry in the Voter Model
• Information Flow in Social Groups
• Voter model dynamics in complex networks: Role of dimensionality, disorder and degree distribution
• Is the Voter Model a model for voters?
• Exact Results for Kinetics of Catalytic Reactions
• Scaling and universality in proportional elections
• Freezing and Slow Evolution in a Constrained Opinion Dynamics Model
• Statistical detection of systematic election irregularities
• Opinion Formation on a Deterministic Pseudo-fractal Network
• Zealots in the mean-field noisy voter model
• Coarsening in the q-State Potts Model and the Ising Model with Globally Conserved Magnetization
• Pair approximation for the q-voter model with independence on complex networks
• Election results and the Sznajd model on Barabasi network
• Effective surface-tension in the noise-reduced voter model
• Tactical Voting in Plurality Elections
• Election turnout statistics in many countries: similarities, differences, and a diffusive field model for decision-making
• The Spread of Opinions and Proportional Voting
• Dynamics of Vacillating Voters
• Spatial correlations in vote statistics: a diffusive field model for decision-making
• Generalized Zipf's Law in proportional voting processes
• Plurality Voting: the statistical laws of democracy in Brazil
• On the Corporate Votes and their relation with Daisy Models
• Correlations between political party size and voter memory: A statistical analysis of opinion polls
• Continuous time limits of the Utterance Selection Model

Cited by in corpus (9)

• Statistical Physics Of Opinion Formation: is it a SPOOF?
• The Impact of Technologies in Political Campaigns
• Zealots in multi-state noisy voter models
• A voter model on networks and multivariate beta distribution
• Compartmental voter model
• Entropic Spatial Auto-correlation of Voter Uncertainty and Voter Transitions in Parliamentary Elections
• Temperature induced collapse of spin dimensionality in magnetic metamaterials
• Understanding the nature of the long-range memory phenomenon in socioeconomic systems
• Competing local and global interactions in social dynamics: how important is the friendship network?