The Galam Model of Minority Opinion Spreading and the Marriage Gap

Abstract

In 2002, Serge Galam designed a model of a minority opinion spreading. The effect is expected to lead a conservative minority to prevail if the issue is discussed long enough. Here we analyze the marriage gap, i.e. the difference in voting for Bush and Kerry in 2004 between married and unmarried people. It seems possible to interpret this marriage gap in terms of the Galam model.

6 pages

Cited by in corpus (2)

• Sociophysics and the Forming of Public Opinion: Threshold versus Non Threshold Dynamics
• Collective beliefs and individual stubbornness in the dynamics of public debates