Voting contagion: Modeling and analysis of a century of U.S. presidential elections.

ABSTRACT: Social influence plays an important role in human behavior and decisions. Sources of influence can be divided as external, which are independent of social context, or as originating from peers, such as family and friends. An important question is how to disentangle the social contagion by peers from external influences. While a variety of experimental and observational studies provided insight into this problem, identifying the extent of contagion based on large-scale observational data with an unknown network structure remains largely unexplored. By bridging the gap between the large-scale complex systems perspective of collective human dynamics and the detailed approach of social sciences, we present a parsimonious model of social influence, and apply it to a central topic in political s

SUBMITTER: Braha D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5436881 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature