Activist model of political party growth
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- 作者：Rebecca A. Jeffs ; John Hayward ; john.hayward@southwales.ac.uk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Paul A. Roach ; John Wyburn
- 关键词：Political parties ; Social diffusion ; Differential equations ; Epidemics ; Population models ; Sociophysics
- 刊名：Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：15 January 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：442
- 期：Complete
- 页码：359-372
- 全文大小：1111 K
文摘
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Political party growth modelled with differential equations.
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Political party growth explained by role of activists as “infectious” agents.
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Activists have dual role on party growth and party quality.
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UK political parties not heading for extinction, despite previous decline.
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Epidemiological explanation of recurrent growth and decline of political parties.