Online petitions are an important feature of contemporary political engagement in advanced
democracies. In this paper we report on a unique data set–covering a five year period and …

Many democratic societies have become more politically polarized, with the US being the
main example. The origins of this phenomenon are still not well-understood and subject to …

Political behaviour increasingly takes place on digital platforms, where people are
presented with a range of social information—real-time feedback about the behaviour of …

Recent political campaigns have demonstrated how technologies are used to boost election
outcomes by microtargeting voters. We propose and analyze a framework which analyzes …

Providing a detailed and pedagogical account of the rapidly-growing field of computational
statistical physics, this book covers both the theoretical foundations of equilibrium and non …

Since 2015 all citizens in Taiwan and since 2018 also residents can use the online platform
called “Join”. The platform allows registered users to propose, discuss and review …

In times marked by political turbulence and uncertainty, as well as increasing divisiveness
and hyperpartisanship, Governments need to use every tool at their disposal to understand …

Characterizing bursty temporal interaction patterns of temporal networks is crucial to
investigate the evolution of temporal networks as well as various collective dynamics taking …

Which kinds of grievances garner support from the public on online platforms? Focusing on
national online petitioning, one of the forms of direct democracy in contemporary politics, we …

Political campaigns involve, in the simplest case, two competing campaign groups which try
to obtain a majority of votes. We propose a novel mathematical framework to study political …