When will they ever make up their minds? The social structure of unstable decision making

Journal of Mathematical Sociology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 171-196

  Flache, Andreas ^a   Torenvlied, René ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chaos theory; Collective decision making; Non linear behavior; Opinion formation; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644226469     PISSN: 0022250X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222500490480257     Document Type: Article

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