Brazilian elections: Voting for a scaling democracy

DOI10.1016/S0378-4371(02)01823-XzbMATH Open1017.91017arXivcond-mat/0211212OpenAlexW2052800178MaRDI QIDQ1867958FDOQ1867958

Authors: Yanyan Li 

Publication date: 23 April 2003

Published in: Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The proportional elections held in Brazil in 1998 and 2002 display identical statistical signatures. In particular, the distribution of votes among candidates includes a power-law regimen. We suggest that the rationale behind this robust scaling invariance is a multiplicative process in which the voter's choice for a candidate is governed by a product of probabilities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0211212

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zbMATH Keywords

scaling invariancemultiplicative processvote distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Voting theory (91B12)

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