2015/01/23 by Fabio Bagarello, Bagarello, Fabio · 4 citations
Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Game Theory and Applications #Game Theory and Voting Systems #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1502.01732
In press in SIAM J. of Applied Mathematics
arxiv created 2015/01/23 · openalex publication_date 2015/01/23 · arxiv updated 2015/02/09 · openalex created_date 2019/06/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We introduce the concept of an \em operator decision making technique and apply it to a concrete political problem: should a given political party form a coalition or not? We focus on the situation of three political parties, and divide the electorate into four groups: partisan supporters of each party and a group of undecided voters. We consider party-party interactions of two forms: shared or differing alliance attitudes. Our main results consist of time-dependent decision functions for each of the three parties, and their asymptotic values, i.e., their final decisions on whether or not to form a coalition.