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The Dissemination of Culture
dc.contributor.authorAxelrod, Roberten_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-13T19:31:11Z
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dc.date.issued1997en_US
dc.identifier.citationAxelrod, Robert (1997). "The Dissemination of Culture." Journal of Conflict Resolution 2(41): 203-226. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/67489>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0022-0027en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/67489
dc.description.abstractDespite tendencies toward convergence, differences between individuals and groups continue to exist in beliefs, attitudes, and behavior. An agent-based adaptive model reveals the effects of a mechanism of convergent social influence. The actors are placed at fixed sites. The basic premise is that the more similar an actor is to a neighbor, the more likely that that actor will adopt one of the neighbor's traits. Unlike previous models of social influence or cultural change that treat features one at a time, the proposed model takes into account the interaction between different features. The model illustrates how local convergence can generate global polarization. Simulations show that the number of stable homogeneous regions decreases with the number of features, increases with the number of alternative traits per feature, decreases with the range of interaction, and (most surprisingly) decreases when the geographic territory grows beyond a certain size.en_US
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dc.publisherSage Periodicals Pressen_US
dc.titleThe Dissemination of Cultureen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPolitical Scienceen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelGovernment, Politics and Lawen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumSchool of Public Policy, University of Michiganen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67489/2/10.1177_0022002797041002001.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0022002797041002001en_US
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