Volker Hösel

Dynamics of Democratic Elections explores modeling approaches to democratic elections and opinion dynamics at the intersection of mathematics, political science, and computational modeling. The book focuses on relatively simple models, their analysis, and how they perform in real-world applications. In order to make the book easy to navigate, the material is divided into three major parts concerning ‘The Voter Model’, ‘Nonlinear Election Models’, and ‘Game Theoretical Models’. Although the material is unashamedly mathematical, the concepts are discussed in a way that should be accessible to anyone with a reasonably strong quantitative background, and should prove interesting to a broad audience beyond mathematicians. Features· Suitable for graduate students and researchers (mathematicians, physicists, social and political scientists with a strong theoretical background)· Step-by-step data preparation and analysis· Abundant exercises· Numerous colour illustrations.

Dynamics of Democratic Elections explores modeling approaches to democratic elections and opinion dynamics at the intersection of mathematics, political science, and computational modeling. The book focuses on relatively simple models, their analysis, and how they perform in real-world applications. In order to make the book easy to navigate, the material is divided into three major parts concerning ‘The Voter Model’, ‘Nonlinear Election Models’, and ‘Game Theoretical Models’. Although the material is unashamedly mathematical, the concepts are discussed in a way that should be accessible to anyone with a reasonably strong quantitative background, and should prove interesting to a broad audience beyond mathematicians. Features· Suitable for graduate students and researchers (mathematicians, physicists, social and political scientists with a strong theoretical background)· Step-by-step data preparation and analysis· Abundant exercises· Numerous colour illustrations.

Social life of bacteria is in the focus of recent research. Bacteria are simple enough to be accessible by science, but still complex enough to show cooperation, division of labor, bet-hedging, cross-talk and synchronized activities, and a rich variety of social traits. A central question of evolutionary theory is the explanation why this social life did develop, and why these systems are evolutionary stable. This book introduces the reader into the theory of evolution, covering classical models and as well as recent developments. The theory developed is used to represent the up-to-date understanding of social bacteria. This book will be useful for students and lecturers interested in mathematical evolutionary theory, as well as for researchers as a reference.