20.500.12556/DKUM-92055 The microdynamics shaping the relationship between democracy and corruption Physics has a long tradition of laying rigorous quantitative foundations for social phenomena. Here, we up the ante for physics' forays into the territory of social sciences by (i) empirically documenting a tipping point in the relationship between democratic norms and corruption suppression, and then (ii) demonstrating how such a tipping point emerges from a micro-scale mechanistic model of spin dynamics in a complex network. Specifically, the tipping point in the relationship between democratic norms and corruption suppression is such that democratization has little effect on suppressing corruption below a critical threshold, but a large effect above the threshold. The micro-scale model of spin dynamics underpins this phenomenon by reinterpreting spins in terms of unbiased (i.e. altruistic) and biased (i.e. parochial) other-regarding behaviour, as well as the corresponding voting preferences. Under weak democratic norms, dense social connections of parochialists enable coercing enough opportunist voters to vote in favour of perpetuating parochial in-group bias. Society may, however, strengthen democratic norms in a rapid turn of events during which opportunists adopt altruism and vote to subdue bias. The emerging model outcome at the societal scale thus mirrors the data, implying that democracy either perpetuates or suppresses corruption depending on the prevailing democratic norms. tipping point complex network sociophysics točka preloma kompleksne mreže sociofizika true false true Royal Society Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik https://royalsociety.org/journals/ © 2022 The Authors Članek v reviji 2025-03-13 12:57:56 2025-03-13 12:57:56 2025-03-14 03:27:41 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022 0 0 14 str. iss. 2257 Vol. 478 Jan. 2022 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2021-07-13 2021-12-01 2022-01-12 53:36 95319299 10.1098/rspa.2021.0567 1471-2946 podobnik-et-al-2022-the-microdynamics-shaping-the-relationship-between-democracy-and-corruption.pdf podobnik-et-al-2022-the-microdynamics-shaping-the-relationship-between-democracy-and-corruption.pdf 1 FCDB9EB9060391388DAA08848F494A06 015ee4c544fcd7526caf1616ed91bcff39189d2a99aedc8ce314afd9a963500a 801dac9b-0003-11f0-82d0-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=189253 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2021.0567 0 95063f68-0003-11f0-82d0-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=189254 Fakulteta za gradbeništvo, prometno inženirstvo in arhitekturo 0 0 0