From 2000 Bush-Gore to 2006 Italian elections: Voting at fifty-fifty and the contrarian effect

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 579-589

  Galam, Serge ^a  

^a Centre de Recherche en Epistemologie Appliquee Ecole Polytechnique   (France)

Author keywords

Contrarian behavior; Fifty fifty voting; Hung elections; Opinion dynamics; Sociophysics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250878388     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-007-9072-8     Document Type: Article

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