Role of parties in the vote distribution of proportional elections

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 388, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 4167-4170

  Araripe, L E ^a,b   Costa Filho, R N ^a,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MARANHÃO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collective phenomena; Complex systems; Econophysics; Scaling laws

Indexed keywords

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PHYSICS; SCALING LAWS;

COLLECTIVE PHENOMENA; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; ECONOPHYSICSS; FINNISH; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POWER-LAW BEHAVIOR; UNIVERSAL BEHAVIORS;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 67650117724     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2009.06.023     Document Type: Article

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