TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints6934
UR  - http://cogprints.org/6934/
A1  - Maulana, Ardian
A1  - Situngkir, Hokky
TI  - Power laws in Elections
A Survey

Y1  - 2010/08/17/
N2  - Empirical power laws in general elections are surveyed in Brazil, Mexico, India, and with focal analysis in Indonesia. The diversity of preference dynamics in voter?s social network and the way multi-party systems to be in its critical conditions are responsible for this pushing around the evolution of political system at general. For the special case of Indonesia, we report the existing robustness for levels of legislative elections throughout 1999 to 2009. We show that the scale free phenomena in different scales of aggregation and outline some analytical outlines and consequences that could be drawn referring to this. 
AV  - public
KW  - democracy
KW  -  elections
KW  -  power law.
ER  -

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