| Title: | The microdynamics shaping the relationship between democracy and corruption |
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| Authors: | ID Podobnik, Boris (Author)
ID Jusup, Marko (Author)
ID Korošak, Dean (Author)
ID Holme, Petter (Author)
ID Lipić, Tomislav (Author) |
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| Files: |  podobnik-et-al-2022-the-microdynamics-shaping-the-relationship-between-democracy-and-corruption.pdf (911,04 KB)
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 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2021.0567
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Article |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | FGPA - Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | tipping point, complex network, sociophysics |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Submitted for review: | 13.07.2021 |
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| Article acceptance date: | 01.12.2021 |
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| Publication date: | 12.01.2022 |
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| Publisher: | Royal Society |
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| Year of publishing: | 2022 |
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| Number of pages: | 14 str. |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 478, iss. 2257 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-92055  |
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| UDC: | 53:36 |
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| ISSN on article: | 1471-2946 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 95319299 |
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| DOI: | 10.1098/rspa.2021.0567 |
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| Copyright: | © 2022 The Authors |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 13.03.2025 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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