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Democracy: Order out of Chaos

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We construct a majority cellular automata based model to explain the power-law signatures in Indonesian general election results. The understanding of second-order phase transitions between two different conditions inspires the model. The democracy is assumed as critical point between the two extreme socio-political situations of totalitarian and anarchistic social system - where democracy can fall into the twos. The model is in multi-party candidates system run for equilibrium or equilibria, and used to fit and analyze the three of democratic national elections in Indonesia, 1955, 1999, and 2004.

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@article{arxiv.nlin/0406057,
  title  = {Democracy: Order out of Chaos},
  author = {Hokky Situngkir and Yohanes Surya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0406057},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, 6 figures