3 papers
physics.soc-ph2025
Circulation of Elites in an Adaptive Network Model
Alexander Jochim, Stefan Bornholdt
Societies experience politically stable and unstable phases along history, whereas political power is usually passed to new elite groups by these changes. Structural dynamics of th…
physics.soc-ph2025
Self-organized Collapse of Societies
Alexander Jochim, Stefan Bornholdt
Why are human societies unstable? Theories based on the observation of recurring patterns in historical data indicate that economic inequality, as well as social factors are key dr…
cond-mat.dis-nn2003
Dynamics of social networks
Holger Ebel, Joern Davidsen, Stefan Bornholdt
Complex networks as the World Wide Web, the web of human sexual contacts or criminal networks often do not have an engineered architecture but instead are self-organized by the act…