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Corruption Drives the Emergence of Civil Society
Sherief Abdallah, Rasha Sayed, Iyad Rahwan +4
Peer punishment of free-riders (defectors) is a key mechanism for promoting cooperation in society. However, it is highly unstable since some cooperators may contribute to a common…
Social Network Sensors for Early Detection of Contagious Outbreaks
Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler
Current methods for the detection of contagious outbreaks give contemporaneous information about the course of an epidemic at best. Individuals at the center of a social network ar…
Cooperative Behavior Cascades in Human Social Networks
James H. Fowler, Nicholas A. Christakis
Theoretical models suggest that social networks influence the evolution of cooperation, but to date there have been few experimental studies. Observational data suggest that a wide…
Party Polarization in Congress: A Network Science Approach
Andrew Scott Waugh, Liuyi Pei, James H. Fowler +2
We measure polarization in the United States Congress using the network science concept of modularity. Modularity provides a conceptually-clear measure of polarization that reveals…