To how many politicians should government be left?

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 3939-3947

  Klimek, Peter ^a   Hanel, Rudolf ^a   Thurner, Stefan ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Administration; Coefficient of inefficiency; Efficiency; Opinion formation in small groups

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; MANAGEMENT; PHYSICS;

CHARACTERISTIC SIZE; COEFFICIENT OF INEFFICIENCY; DECISION-MAKING GROUPS; NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS; OPINION FORMATION; QUALITATIVE CHANGES; VOTER MODELS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 67649446160     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.06.012     Document Type: Article

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