Dynamics of Democratic Elections : A Mathematical Approach to Political Science (Paperback)

Foreword?Preface?Section I The Voter Model and its extensions?Chapter 1 Warm up: Votes per candidate?Chapter 2 The voter model?Chapter 3 The zealot Model?Chapter 4 The Voter Model with Party Dynamics?Section II Nonlinear election models?Chapter 5 Elections and the Potts model?Chapter 6 Reinforcement Model?Chapter 7 Unifying ground of the Potts and the Voter model?Chapter 8 Hierarchical models?Section III Rational voting - Game theoretical models?Chapter 9 Spatial valence model?Chapter 10 Voting paradox?Appendix A? Dynamical systems in a nutshell?Appendix B Stochastic models in a nutshell?Appendix C Voter Model with Party Dynamics ? details?Appendix D Appendix: Tables for chapter 7?Bibliography?Appendix E Data sources