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On the emergence of an "intention field" for socially cohesive agents
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Christian Borghesi, Pablo Jensen
We argue that when a social convergence mechanism exists and is strong enough, one should expect the emergence of a well defined "field", i.e. a slowly evolving, local quantity aro…
Universal size effects for populations in group-outcome decision-making problems
Christian Borghesi, Laura Hernández, Rémi Louf +1
Elections constitute a paradigm of decision-making problems that have puzzled experts of different disciplines for decades. We study two decision-making problems, where groups make…
Between order and disorder: a 'weak law' on recent electoral behavior among urban voters?
Christian Borghesi, Jean Chiche, Jean-Pierre Nadal
A new viewpoint on electoral involvement is proposed from the study of the statistics of the proportions of abstentionists, blank and null, and votes according to list of choices,…
Election turnout statistics in many countries: similarities, differences, and a diffusive field model for decision-making
Christian Borghesi, Jean-Claude Raynal, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
We study in details the turnout rate statistics for 77 elections in 11 different countries. We show that the empirical results established in a previous paper for French elections…
Spatial correlations in vote statistics: a diffusive field model for decision-making
Christian Borghesi, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud
We study the statistics of turnout rates and results of the French elections since 1992. We find that the distribution of turnout rates across towns is surprisingly stable over tim…
Results of three quantitative predictions based on past regularities about voter turnout at the French 2009 European election
Christian Borghesi
Twelve turnout rates of French national elections by municipality have shown statistical regularities, neither depend on the nature of the election, nor on the national turnout lev…