Democracy: Order out of Chaos

• Main Authors: Situngkir, Hokky, Surya, Yohanes
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 24-06-2004
• Subjects: Physics - Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.nlin/0406057

We construct a majority cellular automata based model to explain the
power-law signatures in Indonesian general election results. The understanding
of second-order phase transitions between two different conditions inspires the
model. The democracy is assumed as critical point between the two extreme
socio-political situations of totalitarian and anarchistic social system -
where democracy can fall into the twos. The model is in multi-party candidates
system run for equilibrium or equilibria, and used to fit and analyze the three
of democratic national elections in Indonesia, 1955, 1999, and 2004.