Paradigm shifts and the interplay between state, business and civil sectors.

ABSTRACT: The recent rise of the civil sector as a main player of socio-political actions, next to public and private sectors, has largely increased the complexity underlying the interplay between different sectors of our society. From urban planning to global governance, analysis of these complex interactions requires new mathematical and computational approaches. Here, we develop a novel framework, grounded on evolutionary game theory, to envisage situations in which each of these sectors is confronted with the dilemma of deciding between maintaining a status quo scenario or shifting towards a new paradigm. We consider multisector conflicts regarding environmentally friendly policies as an example of application, but the framework developed here has a considerably broader scope. We show tha

SUBMITTER: Encarnacao S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5210695 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature