An agent-based model of multi-dimensional opinion dynamics and opinion alignment
Abstract
It is known that individual opinions on different policy issues often align to a dominant ideological dimension (e.g. "left" vs. "right") and become increasingly polarized. We provide an agent-based model that reproduces these two stylized facts as emergent properties of an opinion dynamics in a multi-dimensional space of continuous opinions. The mechanisms for the change of agents' opinions in this multi-dimensional space are derived from...
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Title
An agent-based model of multi-dimensional opinion dynamics and opinion alignment
Published Date
Sep 1, 2020
Volume
30
Issue
9
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