Simulating closed regimes with agent based models
Authored by R. Bhavnani, D. Backer, Rick L Riolo
DOI: 10.1002/cplx.20233
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Abstract
This article describes efforts to develop an exploratory agent-based model (is a tool for studying decision making in political regimes such as Iraq, North Korea, and Syria. Our hybrid of the landscape metaphor and the ride-based system approach captures the trade-offs leaders face in balancing components of a utility function, phis risk profiles that allow departures front conventional utility maximization. Two simple experiments concerning succession demonstrate the surprising compromises both leaders and elites are willing to make, as well as the instability of these bargains. (C) 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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