How many different parties can join into one stable government ?
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Monte Carlo simulations of the Sznajd model with bounded confidence for varying dimensions show that the probability to reach a consensus in d-dimensional lattices depends only weakly on d. but strongly on the number Q of possible opinions: Q=3 usually leads to consensus, Q=4 does not.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0307352,
title = {How many different parties can join into one stable government ?},
author = {Dietrich Stauffer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0307352},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3 pages including one figure