Negative response to an excessive bias by a mixed population of voters

• Published in: Condensed Matter Physics
• Date: 2017
• Main Authors: Dotsenko, V.S., Mejía-Monasterio, C., Oshanin, G.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Інститут фізики конденсованих систем НАН України 2017
• Online Access: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/156967
• Journal Title: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Cite this: Negative response to an excessive bias by a mixed population of voters / V.S. Dotsenko, C. Mejía-Monasterio, G. Oshanin // Condensed Matter Physics. — 2017. — Т. 20, № 1. — С. 13801: 1–11. — Бібліогр.: 30 назв. — англ.

We study an outcome of a vote in a population of voters exposed to an externally applied bias in favour of one of two potential candidates. The population consists of ordinary individuals, that are in majority and tend to align their opinion with the external bias, and some number of contrarians —...