Stability of democracies: a complex systems perspective
The 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.
by
Adriana Lea Schellenbaum-Lenner
K. Wiesner, A. Birdi, T. Eliassi-Rad, H. Farrell, D. Garcia, S. Lewandowsky, P. Palacios, D. Ross, D. Sornette and K. Thébault,
European Journal of Physics 40, 014002 (2019), (17pp)
(https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6404/aaeb4d)
EJP: external page http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6404/aaeb4d
University of Bristol: external page http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2018/november/complex-systems-theory-.html