Dresden 2006 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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AKSOE: Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

AKSOE 4: Social-, Information-, and Production Networks I

AKSOE 4.4: Vortrag

Montag, 27. März 2006, 17:30–18:00, BAR 205

The Democracy-Ochlocracy-Dictatorship Transition in the Sznajd Model — •Johannes J. Schneider¹ and Christian Hirtreiter² — ¹Institute of Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099 Mainz, Germany — ²Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstr. 31, 93053 Regensburg, Germany
Since its introduction in 2000, the Sznajd model has been assumed to simulate a democratic community with two parties [1]. The main flaw in this model is that a Sznajd system freezes in the long term in a non-democratic state, which can be either a dictatorship or a stalemate configuration. Here we show that the Sznajd model has better to be considered as a transition model, transferring a democratic system already at the beginning of a simulation via an ochlocratic scenario, i.e., a regime in which several mobs rule, to a dictatorship [2], thus reproducing the corresponding Aristotelian theory [3].

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

[2] J. J. Schneider and Ch. Hirtreiter, Physica A 353, 539 (2005).

[3] Aristoteles, Politica.