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Democracy: Order out of Chaos

2004/06/24 by Hokky Situngkir, Situngkir, Hokky, Yohanes Surya +1
Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO) #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #FOS: Physical sciences #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #Quantum many-body systems #nlin.AO

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nlin/0406057

10 pages, 6 figures

arxiv created 2004/06/24 · openalex publication_date 2004/06/24 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

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.

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