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physics.soc-ph2007
From 2000 Bush-Gore to 2006 Italian elections: Voting at fifty-fifty and the Contrarian Effect
Serge Galam
A sociophysical model for opinion dynamics is shown to embody a series of recent western hung national votes all set at the unexpected and very improbable edge of a fifty-fifty sco…
physics.soc-ph2007★ 9 cited
Stability of leadership in bottom-up hierarchical organizations
Serge Galam
The stability of a leadership against a growing internal opposition is studied in bottom-up hierarchical organizations. Using a very simple model with bottom-up majority rule votin…
physics.soc-ph2007★ 313 cited
The role of inflexible minorities in the breaking of democratic opinion dynamics
Serge Galam, Frans Jacobs
We study the effect of inflexible agents on two state opinion dynamics. The model operates via repeated local updates of random grouping of agents. While floater agents do eventual…