<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">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:</div><div dir="auto"><br>Crude model ✔ <br>A pinch of game theory ✔ <br>Application to an arbitrary domain ✔<br><br>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):<br>https://nbviewer.org/github/JochenFromm/JupyterNotebooks/blob/master/ModelingDemocraticBacksliding.ipynb<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div></body></html>