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How Does a Divided Population Respond to Change?

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dc.contributor.author Qubbaj, Murad R.
dc.contributor.author Muneepeerakul, Rachata
dc.contributor.author Aggarwal, Rimjhim
dc.contributor.author Anderies, John M.
dc.date.accessioned 2016-02-05T16:33:04Z
dc.date.available 2016-02-05T16:33:04Z
dc.date.issued 2015 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/10001
dc.description.abstract ""Most studies on the response of socioeconomic systems to a sudden shift focus on long-term equilibria or end points. Such narrow focus forgoes many valuable insights. Here we examine the transient dynamics of regime shift on a divided population, exemplified by societies divided ideologically, politically, economically, or technologically. Replicator dynamics is used to investigate the complex transient dynamics of the population response. Though simple, our modeling approach exhibits a surprisingly rich and diverse array of dynamics. Our results highlight the critical roles played by diversity in strategies and the magnitude of the shift. Importantly, it allows for a variety of strategies to arise organically as an integral part of the transient dynamics—as opposed to an independent process—of population response to a regime shift, providing a link between the population's past and future diversity patterns. Several combinations of different populations' strategy distributions and shifts were systematically investigated. Such rich dynamics highlight the challenges of anticipating the response of a divided population to a change. The findings in this paper can potentially improve our understanding of a wide range of socio-ecological and technological transitions." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject change en_US
dc.title How Does a Divided Population Respond to Change? en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Theory en_US
dc.subject.sector Social Organization en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal PLoS ONE en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 10 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 7 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth July en_US


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