Synergetic modelling concepts for sociodynamics with application to collective political opinion formation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10142634 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wolfgang Weidlich (University of Stuttgart, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 267-291 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Mathematical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-250X • E-ISSN: 1545-5874 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0022250x.1994.9990129 |
| OpenAlex | W2069168253 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 15 |
The article has three purposes. Firstly it introduces into synergetics, an interdisciplinary field of research which is concerned with "cooperative" interactions of individual parts of a system producing macroscopic spatial, temporal or functional structures. Secondly, a general modelling strategy for building mathematical models for dynamic processes at the macrolevel of the society is presented and its relation to the general concepts of synergetics is explained. Thirdly, the modelling procedure is concretely applied to a simple dynamical model of collective political opinion formation: After establishing the relation between the microlevel of individual decision making and the macrolevel of collective opinion variables, the master equation for the probability distribution over the "sodoconfiguration" is set up and dynamic equations for the quasi‐mean values of the relevant macrovariables are derived. The model comprises the cases of liberal and totalitarian political systems and enables the mathematical description of phase transitions between both. Computer simulations of characteristic political opinion scenarios illustrate the model and are sociologically interpreted
Data mining · Economics · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Management science · Mathematical economics · Physics · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Set (abstract data type · Simple (philosophy · Statistical physics · Synergetics (Haken · Computer Science · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Law · Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models · Mathematics · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Introduction and Summary
Opinion Formation Models
Formation of Opinions under the Influence of Competing Agents — a Mean Field Approach
Urban Land Changes as the Interaction Between Self-Organization and Institutions
Organizational and dynamical aspects of a small network with two distinct communities
Dynamics of political opinion formation including catastrophe theory
Simulating the Micro-Macro Link
An information‐theoretic‐based (MaxEnt) approach to social dynamical systems
A mathematical model for the behavior of individuals in a social field
Self-organizing cities
A Bayesian mixture model captures temporal and spatial structure of voting blocs within longitudinal referendum data
Peer selection in EU intergovernmental negotiations
Complexity Theory as a Link between Space and Place
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.41 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2026 (33) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |