Contrarians and voting dynamics

Serge Galam of the Laboratoire des Milieux Desordonnees et Heterogenes (the social sciences just sound cooler when they’re in French) is speaking here on “Contrarian deterministic effects on opinion dynamics: “the hung elections scenario'”. The paper is here.

I’m skeptical of physicists doing social science, but on the other hand, Galam’s paper seems somewhat related to some (much simpler) work of mine on coalition-formation as a potential explanation for political instability.

Galam’s talk is Wed 14 Sept in 1219 International Affairs Building.