SCALING LAWS FOR THE LIFETIMES OF GOVERNMENTS IN THE SZNAJD DEMOCRACY

Johannes J. Schneider () and Christian Hirtreiter ()
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Johannes J. Schneider: Department of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany
Christian Hirtreiter: Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2005, vol. 16, issue 01, 157-165

Abstract: We investigate the lifetimes of governments in the original and a randomized one-dimensional Sznajd model. We find various scaling laws for the lifetime of the democracy and for the reigning time of governments in this model, depending on the system sizeN.

Keywords: Sociophysics; Sznajd model; scaling; government; elections; Ising spin (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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