How political parties adjust to fixed voter opinions
Physics and Society
2009-11-11 v2
Abstract
We propose a new version of the spatial model of voting. Platforms of five parties are evolving in a two-dimensional landscape of political issues so as to get maximal numbers of voters. For a Gaussian landscape the evolution leads to a spatially symmetric state, where the platform centers form a pentagon around the Gaussian peak. For a bimodal landscape the platforms located at different peaks get different numbers of voters.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0503189,
title = {How political parties adjust to fixed voter opinions},
author = {Krzysztof Kulakowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0503189},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages, 3 figures. Accepted in Int. J. Modern Phys. C