An epidemiological approach to the spread of political third parties

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 707-738

  Romero, Daniel M ^a   Kribs Zaleta, Christopher M ^b   Mubayi, Anuj ^c   Orbe, Clara ^d  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward bifurcation; Grassroots political movements; Population biology; Third parties

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954514910     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2011.15.707     Document Type: Article

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