First results on applying a non-linear effect formalism to alliances between political parties and buy and sell dynamics

F. Bagarello and Emmanuel Haven

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016, vol. 444, issue C, 403-414

Abstract: We discuss a non linear extension of a model of alliances in politics, recently proposed by one of us. The model is constructed in terms of operators, describing the interest of three parties to form, or not, some political alliance with the other parties. The time evolution of what we call the decision functions is deduced by introducing a suitable Hamiltonian, which describes the main effects of the interactions of the parties amongst themselves and with their environments, which are generated by their electors and by people who still have no clear idea for which party to vote (or even if to vote). The Hamiltonian contains some non-linear effects, which takes into account the role of a party in the decision process of the other two parties.

Keywords: Econophysics; Quantum models in macroscopic systems (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.10.022

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