From ferromagnets to electoral instability
An electoral model predicts that polarized and alienated voters lead to unstable elections, like phase transitions in an Ising model. Such physics-inspired models may help political scientists devise electoral reforms to quench instability.
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Nature physics 2020-02, Vol.16 (2), p.125-126 |
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| Format: | Artikel |
| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | An electoral model predicts that polarized and alienated voters lead to unstable elections, like phase transitions in an Ising model. Such physics-inspired models may help political scientists devise electoral reforms to quench instability. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-2473 1745-2481 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s41567-019-0761-8 |