Partisan intuition belies strong, institutional consensus and wide Zipf's law for voting blocs in US Supreme Court

DOI10.1007/S10955-018-2156-0zbMath1422.91636OpenAlexW2890773560WikidataQ129233955 ScholiaQ129233955MaRDI QIDQ1757183

Edward D. Lee

Publication date: 2 January 2019

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-018-2156-0

zbMATH Keywords

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistical and quantum mechanics to economics (econophysics) (91B80) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) History, political science (91F10)

Uses Software

• ConIII
• PRMLT

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