Spin glasses with attitude: Opinion formation in a partisan Erdo's-Rényi world

M. H. Afrasiabi; R. Guerin; S. S. Venkatesh

doi:10.1109/ITA.2014.6804275

Spin glasses with attitude: Opinion formation in a partisan Erdo's-Rényi world

M. H. Afrasiabi, R. Guerin, S. S. Venkatesh

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We explore the role of partisan influence in the emergence of consensus opinions in connected populations. Such scenarios arise in many modern settings-political interactions and online forums provide two instances-and there is a long-standing interest in modeling the dynamics of opinion evolution in such systems. By overlaying an external party-based bias on a spin glass inspired structure we show how party discipline tends to persist in the presence of independents, explore the role of neighborhood size in influencing dynamics, and exhibit conditions under which defections from party ranks are enabled.

Original language	English
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ITA.2014.6804275
State	Published - 2014
Event	2014 IEEE Information Theory and Applications Workshop, ITA 2014 - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: Feb 9 2014 → Feb 14 2014

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Conference	2014 IEEE Information Theory and Applications Workshop, ITA 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	02/9/14 → 02/14/14

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