Modeling the Evolution of Political Ideologies
Date
2017-07-10Abstract
Our work intends to shed new insights into the debate of
polarization by using a multidisciplinary approach that
applies Evolutionary Game Theory to study the evolution of public ideology in US.
In particular, we use the replicator equation to model
political ideology as a dynamic game, where strategies
reproduce at a rate proportional to their payoffs.
Evolutionary game theory has explicit biological roots,
where payoffs represent fitness as the underlying process
of natural selection.
However, these models can also be thought of as models
of cultural evolution.
