Strategies for an efficient official publicity campaign

Abstract

We consider the process of opinion formation, in a society where there is a set of rules, $B$. These rules change over time due to the drift of public opinion, driven in part by publicity campaigns. Public opinion is formed by the integration of the voters' attitudes which can be either conservative (in agreement with $B$) or liberal (in agreement with peer voters). These attitudes are represented in the phase space of the system by stable fixed points. In the present letter we study the properties that an official publicity campaign must have in order to turn the public opinion in favor of $B.$

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