SIAM Review.Abrams is an associate professor of engineering sciences and applied mathematics in Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering.
Co-authors include Drs. Adilson Motter, the Morrison Professor of Physics and Astronomy in Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, and Vicky Chuqiao Yang, a postdoctoral fellow at the Santa Fe Institute and former student in Abrams’ laboratory.To accommodate voters’ “satisficing” behavior, the researchers developed a mathematical model using differential equations to understand how a rational political party would position itself to get the most votes.
The tool is reactive, with the past influencing future behaviors of the parties.The study looked at 150 years of Congressional voting.
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