Dealing with correlated choices: How a spin-glass model can help political parties select their policies
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2014-10-13 v2 Physics and Society
Abstract
Starting from preferences on N proposed policies obtained via questionnaires from a sample of the electorate, an Ising spin-glass model in a field can be constructed from which a political party could find the subset of the proposed policies which would maximize its appeal, form a coherent choice in the eyes of the electorate, and have maximum overlap with the party's existing policies. We illustrate the application of the procedure by simulations of a spin glass in a random field on scale-free networks.
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@article{arxiv.1402.0237,
title = {Dealing with correlated choices: How a spin-glass model can help political parties select their policies},
author = {M. A. Moore and Helmut G. Katzgraber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.0237},
year = {2014}
}
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8 pages, 2 figures