Interactional dynamics of same-sex marriage legislation in the United States.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how people form opinions and make decisions is a complex phenomenon that depends on both personal practices and interactions. Recent availability of real-world data has enabled quantitative analysis of opinion formation, which illuminates phenomena that impact physical and social sciences. Public policies exemplify complex opinion formation spanning individual and population scales, and a timely example is the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States. Here, we seek to understand how this issue captures the relationship between state-laws and Senate representatives subject to geographical and ideological factors. Using distance-based correlations, we study how physical proximity and state-government ideology may be used to extract patterns in state-law adoption a

SUBMITTER: Roy S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5493911 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature