Universality in voting behavior: An empirical analysis

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Chatterjee, Arnab ^a   Mitrović, Marija ^a   Fortunato, Santo ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POLITICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLITICS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872719381     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep01049     Document Type: Article

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