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physics.soc-ph2019★ 13 cited
Competing Activists--Political Polarization
Lucas Böttcher, Pedro Montealegre, Eric Goles +1
Recent empirical findings suggest that societies have become more polarized in various countries. That is, the median voter of today represents a smaller fraction of society compar…
physics.soc-ph2017★ 98 cited
Critical behaviors in contagion dynamics
Lucas Böttcher, Jan Nagler, Hans J. Herrmann
We study the critical behavior of a general contagion model where nodes are either active (e.g. with opinion A, or functioning) or inactive (e.g. with opinion B, or damaged). The t…