[FRIAM] Modeling democratic backsliding

glen gepropella at gmail.com
Thu Jan 20 09:38:24 EST 2022


Why execute only the 3 games with only the 2 cases? Why not include at least stag hunt for reference and maybe a couple of starting points in between like, x∈{0.45,0.55}? Did you try such and see uninteresting curves? Or are the cases you chose rhetorical?

On 1/15/22 05:00, Jochen Fromm wrote:
> I'm working on a kick-ass paper :-) which hopefully can be published in a journal like https://www.jasss.org as your "My way or the highway" article a few years ago. Any academics in their silverback phase interested in joining the attempt? I like David's description of academics who take very crude models, and impose them on anything that can’t get away, whether the models belong or not. The paper has everything:
> 
> Crude model ✔
> A pinch of game theory ✔
> Application to an arbitrary domain ✔
> 
> Here is the Jupyter notebook where I try to use the replicator equation for the coordination game to model a transition from democracy to autocracy (and back):
> https://nbviewer.org/github/JochenFromm/JupyterNotebooks/blob/master/ModelingDemocraticBacksliding.ipynb


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glen
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