Modelling Surveys Effects in Political Competitions
Physics and Society
2018-03-28 v1 Social and Information Networks
Abstract
In this paper we study the impact of news media and public surveys on the electoral campaigns for political competitions. We present an agent-based model that addresses the effective influence of surveys in orienting the opinions of voters before elections. The dynamics of electoral consensus is studied as a function of time by investigating different possible scenarios and the effect of periodic surveys, on the opinions of a small community of voters represented as a network of agents connected by realistic social relationships. Our simulations show the possibility to manage opinion consensus in electoral competitions.
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@article{arxiv.1711.02765,
title = {Modelling Surveys Effects in Political Competitions},
author = {A. E. Biondo and A. Pluchino and A. Rapisarda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.02765},
year = {2018}
}
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21 pages, 9 figures