Phase Transition in Democratic Opinion Dynamics
2019
Consider a community where initially, each individual is positive or negative regarding a reform proposal. In each round, individuals gather randomly in fixed rooms of different sizes, and all individuals in a room agree on the majority opinion in the room (with ties broken in favor of the negative opinion). The Galam model---introduced in statistical physics, specifically sociophysics---approximates this basic random process. We approach the model from a more mathematical perspective and study the threshold behavior and the consensus time of the model.
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