TY - JOUR
T1 - Prediction model for approval ratings of governments
AU - Sakaguchi, Hidetsugu
AU - Hamasaki, Yoko
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Physical Society of Japan
PY - 2020/11/9
Y1 - 2020/11/9
N2 - Opinion dynamics is one of the important topics in sociophysics, in which opinion is determined as the collective behavior of many interacting individuals. In this paper, we propose a simple linear prediction model for approval ratings of governments using article number in newspapers. The fairly good agreement between real data and the time sequence generated by the prediction model suggests that the approval ratings might be simply determined by the external forcing of news and damping similar to the linear forced oscillation in mechanics.
AB - Opinion dynamics is one of the important topics in sociophysics, in which opinion is determined as the collective behavior of many interacting individuals. In this paper, we propose a simple linear prediction model for approval ratings of governments using article number in newspapers. The fairly good agreement between real data and the time sequence generated by the prediction model suggests that the approval ratings might be simply determined by the external forcing of news and damping similar to the linear forced oscillation in mechanics.
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U2 - 10.7566/JPSJ.89.124801
DO - 10.7566/JPSJ.89.124801
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85097234252
SN - 0031-9015
VL - 89
JO - journal of the physical society of japan
JF - journal of the physical society of japan
IS - 12
M1 - 124801
ER -