ArticleScientific reports2021
A signed network perspective on the government formation process in parliamentary democracies.
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- Heider Balance-A Continuous Dynamics.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Unpacking polarization: Antagonism and alignment in signed networks of online interaction.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- From populations to networks: Relating diversity indices and frustration in signed graphs.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Empirical social triad statistics can be explained with dyadic homophylic interactions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
In parliamentary democracies, government negotiations talks following a general election can sometimes be a long and laborious process. In order to explain this phenomenon, in this paper we use structural balance theory to represent a multiparty parliament as a signed network, with edge signs representing alliances and rivalries among parties. We show that the notion of frustration, which quantifies the amount of "disorder" encoded in the signed graph, correlates very well with the duration of the government negotiation talks. For the 29 European countries considered in this study, the average correlation between frustration and government negotiation talks ranges between 0.42 and 0.69, depending on what information is included in the edges of the signed network. Dynamical models of collective decision-making over signed networks with varying frustration are proposed to explain this correlation.
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