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The dual attitudinal dynamics of public opinion: an agent-based reformulation of L. F. Richardson’s war-moods model

Authors: Katsuma Mitsutsuji, Susumu Yamakage

Published in: Quality & Quantity | Issue 2/2020

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This study proposes a new model of public opinion dynamics, focused specifically on attitudes toward war. The model consists of citizen-agents who have dual (public and private) attitudes. While they change the two levels of attitude according to different rules of two-layered interactions with neighboring agents, they also change their own attitudes internally. Our model shows that public opinion has “meta-stable” states, which generate overlapping, or two-valued, stable states. This characteristic can explain how public opinion responds to the outbreak and continuation of war very differently, not just in our model, but also in the opinions of European citizens on the First World War and those of American citizens on U.S. wars after the Second World War.

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Title: The dual attitudinal dynamics of public opinion: an agent-based reformulation of L. F. Richardson’s war-moods model
Authors: Katsuma Mitsutsuji
Susumu Yamakage
Publication date: 28-09-2019
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Quality & Quantity / Issue 2/2020
Print ISSN: 0033-5177
Electronic ISSN: 1573-7845
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-019-00938-x

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