title: Power laws in Elections  A Survey  
creator: Maulana, Ardian
creator: Situngkir, Hokky
subject: Archives
subject: Complexity Theory
subject: Language
subject: Statistical Models
description: Empirical power laws in general elections are surveyed in Brazil, Mexico, India, and with focal analysis in Indonesia. The diversity of preference dynamics in voter’s social network and the way multi-party systems to be in its critical conditions are responsible for this pushing around the evolution of political system at general. For the special case of Indonesia, we report the existing robustness for levels of legislative elections throughout 1999 to 2009. We show that the scale free phenomena in different scales of aggregation and outline some analytical outlines and consequences that could be drawn referring to this. 
date: 2010-08-17
type: Preprint
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/6934/1/Power_laws_in_Elections.pdf
identifier:   Maulana, Ardian and Situngkir, Hokky  (2010) Power laws in Elections A Survey.  [Preprint]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/6934/