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SUBMITTER: Makowsky MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3837003 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Makowsky Michael D MD Rubin Jared J
PloS one 20131121 11
This paper sheds light on the general mechanisms underlying large-scale social and institutional change. We employ an agent-based model to test the impact of authority centralization and social network technology on preference falsification and institutional change. We find that preference falsification is increasing with centralization and decreasing with social network range. This leads to greater cascades of preference revelation and thus more institutional change in highly centralized societ ...[more]