Stability of democracies: a complex systems perspective
dc.contributor.author | Wiesner, K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Birdi, A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Eliassi-Rad, T. | |
dc.contributor.author | Farrell, H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Garcia, D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Lewandowsky, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Palacios, P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ross, Don | |
dc.contributor.author | Sornette, D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Thébault, K. | |
dc.contributor.funder | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | en |
dc.contributor.funder | Vienna Science and Technology Fund | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-26T16:08:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-06-26T16:08:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.description.abstract | The idea that democracy is under threat, after being largely dormant for at least 40 years, is looming increasingly large in public discourse. Complex systems theory offers a range of powerful new tools to analyse the stability of social institutions in general, and democracy in particular. What makes a democracy stable? And which processes potentially lead to instability of a democratic system? This paper offers a complex systems perspective on this question, informed by areas of the mathematical, natural, and social sciences. We explain the meaning of the term ‘stability’ in different disciplines and discuss how laws, rules, and regulations, but also norms, conventions, and expectations are decisive for the stability of a social institution such as democracy. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Vienna Science and Technology Fund (Vienna Research Group Grant ‘Emotional Well-Being in the Digital Society’ VRG16-005) | en |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.identifier.articleid | 014002 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Wiesner, K., Birdi, A., Eliassi-Rad, T., Farrell, H., Garcia, D., Lewandowsky, S., Palacios, P., Ross, D., Sornette, D. and Thébault, K., (2018) 'Stability of democracies: a complex systems perspective', European Journal of Physics, 40(1), 014002 (17pp.) . DOI: 10.1088/1361-6404/aaeb4d | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1088/1361-6404/aaeb4d | en |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1361-6404 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 18 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0143-0807 | |
dc.identifier.issued | 1 | en |
dc.identifier.journaltitle | European Journal of Physics | en |
dc.identifier.startpage | 1 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/8105 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 40 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | IOP Science | en |
dc.relation.project | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCUK/EPSRC/EP/E501214/1/GB/Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences/ | en |
dc.relation.uri | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6404/aaeb4d | |
dc.rights | © 2018 European Physical Society. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. | en |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Complex systems | en |
dc.subject | Democracy | en |
dc.subject | Social system modelling | en |
dc.subject | Stability | en |
dc.subject | Sociophysics | en |
dc.subject | Economics | en |
dc.subject | Statistical mechanics | en |
dc.title | Stability of democracies: a complex systems perspective | en |
dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
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