Paper Info
Title
Spin glasses with attitude: Opinion formation in a partisan Erdős-Rényi world
Abstract
We explore the role of partisan influence in the emergence of consensus opinions in connected populations. Such scenarios arise in many modern settings-political interactions and online forums provide two instances-and there is a long-standing interest in modeling the dynamics of opinion evolution in such systems. By overlaying an external party-based bias on a spin glass inspired structure we show how party discipline tends to persist in the presence of independents, explore the role of neighborhood size in influencing dynamics, and exhibit conditions under which defections from party ranks are enabled.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/ITA.2014.6804275
Information Theory and Applications Workshop
Keywords
Field
DocType
politics,external party-based bias,online forums,opinion evolution,opinion formation,partisan Erdös-Rényi world,party ranks,political interactions,spin glasses
Discrete mathematics,Opinion formation,Computer science,Spin glass,Epistemology,Politics
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohammad Hadi Afrasiabi1172.47
Roch Guérin2142.11
Santosh S. Venkatesh338171.80