Voter demographics and socio-economic factors like age, sex, ethnicity, education level, income, and other measurable factors like behaviour in previous elections or referenda are of key importance in modelling opinion formation dynamics. Here, we revisit the kinetic opinion formation model from Düring and Wright (2022) and compare in more detail the influence of different choices of characteristic demographic factors and initial conditions. The model is based on the kinetic opinion formation model by Toscani (2006) and the leader-follower model of Düring et al. (2009) which leads to a system of Fokker-Planck-type partial differential equations. In the run-up to the 2024 general election in the United Kingdom, we consider in our numerical experiments the situation in the so-called `Red Wall' in North and Midlands of England and compare our simulation results to other election forecasts.
A method for including additional socio-demographic factors in social contact matrices for compartment-based epidemic models
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Canterbury(坎特伯雷大学数学与统计学院);Ngāi Tahu Research Center, University of Canterbury(坎特伯雷大学恩盖·塔胡研究中心);Te Pūnaha Matatini Centre of Research Excellence in Complex Systems(复杂系统卓越研究中心 Te Pūnaha Matatini)
The adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions and the role of digital infrastructure during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia, Ecuador, and El Salvador
Unequal changes in commuting patterns across socio-economic strata in response to pandemic restrictions
ISI Foundation(ISI基金会);Data Science Institute, Universidad del Desarrollo(发展大学数据科学研究所);The World Bank(世界银行);School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London(伦敦大学玛丽女王学院数学科学学院);Alan Turing Institute(艾伦·图灵研究所)