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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 20: Focus Session: Statistical Physics of Political Systems

Thursday, March 21, 2024, 15:00–16:45, MA 001

One of todays most pressing and consequential issues are whether democracy worldwide is in decline. Thanks to an increasing collection of quantitative data, there is a rising opportunity to develop new quantitative models on the role the economy, international armed conflicts and other events play in the stabilisation of political regime types such as democracy and autocracy. This situation invites the use of statistical physics techniques, since these processes often take place on many time and length scales, from the singular event to multi-year developments, and from local regions to continents.

Organized by Karoline Wiesner and Paula Pirker Diaz (Universität Potsdam)

	15:00	SOE 20.1	Invited Talk: A closer look at the multiple scales of armed conflict — •Edward Lee
	15:30	SOE 20.2	Conflict Classification Using Multinomial Mixture Models and Conflict Avalanches — •Niraj Kushwaha, Edward Lee, and Woi Sok oh
	15:50	SOE 20.3	Digital Democracy: Better than Optimal?! — •Dirk Helbing
	16:10	SOE 20.4	Modelling dynamics of political regime types in the 20th century — •Paula Pirker-Diaz, Sönke Beier, Matthew Wilson, and Karoline Wiesner
	16:30		15 min. for final discussion