Stability of democracies: a complex systems perspective

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dc.contributor.authorWiesner, K.
dc.contributor.authorBirdi, A.
dc.contributor.authorEliassi-Rad, T.
dc.contributor.authorFarrell, H.
dc.contributor.authorGarcia, D.
dc.contributor.authorLewandowsky, S.
dc.contributor.authorPalacios, P.
dc.contributor.authorRoss, Don
dc.contributor.authorSornette, D.
dc.contributor.authorThébault, K.
dc.contributor.funderEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Councilen
dc.contributor.funderVienna Science and Technology Funden
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-26T16:08:10Z
dc.date.available2019-06-26T16:08:10Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe 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.sponsorshipVienna Science and Technology Fund (Vienna Research Group Grant ‘Emotional Well-Being in the Digital Society’ VRG16-005)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleid014002en
dc.identifier.citationWiesner, 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/aaeb4den
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/1361-6404/aaeb4den
dc.identifier.eissn1361-6404
dc.identifier.endpage18en
dc.identifier.issn0143-0807
dc.identifier.issued1en
dc.identifier.journaltitleEuropean Journal of Physicsen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/8105
dc.identifier.volume40en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIOP Scienceen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/RCUK/EPSRC/EP/E501214/1/GB/Bristol Centre for Complexity Sciences/en
dc.relation.urihttps://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.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/en
dc.subjectComplex systemsen
dc.subjectDemocracyen
dc.subjectSocial system modellingen
dc.subjectStabilityen
dc.subjectSociophysicsen
dc.subjectEconomicsen
dc.subjectStatistical mechanicsen
dc.titleStability of democracies: a complex systems perspectiveen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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