Activist model of political party growth

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 442, Issue , 2016, Pages 359-372

  Jeffs, Rebecca A ^a   Hayward, John ^a   Roach, Paul A ^a   Wyburn, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Differential equations; Epidemics; Political parties; Population models; Social diffusion; Sociophysics

Indexed keywords

PHYSICS;

EPIDEMICS; POLITICAL PARTIES; POPULATION MODEL; SOCIAL DIFFUSIONS; SOCIOPHYSICS;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 84943551889     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2015.09.002     Document Type: Article

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