creators_name: Situngkir, Hokky
creators_name: Surya, Yohanes
type: techreport
datestamp: 2004-06-28
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:37
metadata_visibility: show
title: Democracy: Order out of Chaos
ispublished: unpub
subjects: comp-sci-complex-theory
subjects: economics
subjects: soc-psy
subjects: phil-epist
full_text_status: public
keywords: majority cellular automata, phase transitions, power-law, elections.

abstract: We construct a majority cellular automata based model to explain the power-law signatures in Indonesian general election results. The understanding of second-order phase transitions between two different conditions inspires the model. The democracy is assumed as critical point between the two extreme socio-political situations of totalitarian and anarchistic social system - where democracy can fall into the twos. The model is in multi-party candidates system run for equilibrium or equilibria, and used to fit and analyze the three of democratic national elections in Indonesia, 1955, 1999, and 2004. 
date: 2004-06
date_type: published
institution: Bandung Fe Institute
department: Dept. Computational Sociology
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Situngkir, Hokky and Surya, Yohanes  (2004) Democracy: Order out of Chaos.  [Departmental Technical Report]    (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/3696/1/2004q.pdf