Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9727711 | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 2005 | 16 Pages |
Abstract
Since its introduction in 2000, the Sznajd model has been assumed to simulate a democratic community with two parties. The main flaw in this model is that a Sznajd system freezes in the long term in a non-democratic state, which can be either a dictatorship or a stalemate configuration. Here we show that the Sznajd model has better to be considered as a transition model, transferring a democratic system already at the beginning of a simulation via an ochlocratic scenario, i.e., a regime in which several mobs rule, to a dictatorship, thus reproducing the corresponding Aristotelian theory.
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Authors
Johannes J. Schneider, Christian Hirtreiter,