A recently proposed model of social interaction in voting is investigated by simplifyingit down into a version that is more analytically tractable and which allows a mathematicalanalysis to be performed. This analysis clarifies the interplay of the different elementspresent in the system – social influence, heterogeneity and noise – and leads to a betterunderstanding of its properties. The origin of a regime of bistability is identified. Theinsight gained in this way gives further intuition into the behaviour of the originalmodel.
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Lafuerza, L. F., Dyson, L., Edmonds, B., & McKane, A. J. (2016). Simplification and analysis of a model of social interaction in voting. European Physical Journal B, 89(7). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2016-70062-2
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