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Percolation and Galam Theory of Minority Opinion Spreading

Dietrich Stauffer

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0204099

Abstract

The way in which an opinion rejecting reform can finally become the consensus of everyone was studied by Galam (2002) in a probabilistic model. We now replace his clusters by those formed via random percolation by letting particles diffuse on a lattice. Galam's rejection of reform is reproduced below the percolation threshold, whereas at and above the threshold, also approval of a reform becomes possible.

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