Mathematical Politics

2025/05/14 by Dorje C. Brody, Brody, Dorje C. · 3 voices
Computer Science · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Physics and Astronomy · #physics.soc-ph #cs.CY #econ.GN

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2505.11540

Abstract

Politics today is largely about the art of messaging to influence the public, but the mathematical theory of messaging -- information and communication theory -- can turn this art into a precise analysis, both qualitative and quantitative, that enables us to gain retrospective understandings of past political events and to make forward-looking future predictions.

Citations

• How fake news can turn against its spreader
• When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries
• Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI
• Noise, fake news, and tenacious Bayesians
• Mathematical models for fake news
• The spread of true and false news online

Discussions

• #arXiv Mathematical Politics https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11540 “A pathological liar? What if you have a president who is a pathological liar? Can mathematics uncover statistical signs of the behaviour [bsky, 7 points, 0 comments]
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