[Swarmfest2005] Swarmfest 2005 proposal

[Paul Johnson]

Dear Pietro:

Last week I presented the attached paper (with my colleague Erik Herron) 
at the Midwest Political Science Association.  The attached paper is 
about parliamentary elections in which the system allows voters to 
select candidates in both single member districts (SMD) and parties in a 
proportional election (PR).  These so-called "mixed electoral systems" 
were adopted in several countries during the 1990s.

The simulation (in Swarm) is intended to ascertain the extent to which 
the political behavior of candidates, parties, and voters in one side of 
the system (SMD or PR) influences results in the other side. The results 
obtained so far are suggestive, but we have only scratched the surface. 
 While running the model simulations during March on 4 Pentium IV 
computers, we generated 40 Gigabytes of data on runs with various 
parameter settings.

At Swarmfest I hope to present a technically concise write-up of the 
model along with a survey of findings.  This is a paper that I would 
hope to publish in a simulation-oriented journal, such as the Journal of 
Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.


--
Paul E. Johnson                       email: address@hidden
Dept. of Political Science            http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn
1541 Lilac Lane, Rm 504
University of Kansas                  Office: (785) 864-9086
Lawrence, Kansas 66044-3177           FAX: (785) 864-5700

johnson_herron.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document