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AKSOE: Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

AKSOE 10: Poster Session (posters are expected to be displayed the full day 8:30-18:00)

AKSOE 10.48: Poster

Wednesday, March 29, 2006, 16:00–18:00, P2

Scaling Laws for the Lifetimes of Governments — •Christian Hirtreiter¹ and Johannes J. Schneider² — ¹Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany — ²Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany

We investigate the lifetimes of governments in the original and a randomized one-dimensional Sznajd model [1]. We find various scaling laws for the lifetime of a democracy and for the reigning time of governments in this model, depending on the system size N [2]. We compare our results with the lifetimes of governments in the Western democracies.

[1] K. Sznajd-Weron and J. Sznajd, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 11, 1157 (2000).

[2] J. J. Schneider and Ch. Hirtreiter, Int. J. Mod. Phys. C 16, 157 (2005).