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Table 4 The application of opinion dynamics models in politics

From: Opinion dynamics in finance and business: a literature review and research opportunities

Opinion expression format

Models

Networks

References

Discrete opinions

Sznajd model

Scale-free network

Bernardes et al. (2002)

Lattice

Bernardes et al. (2001), Stauffer (2002a) and Sznajd-Weron (2005)

Small-world and Scale-free networks

González et al. (2004)

Voter model

No specific topology

Sano et al. (2017)

Non-overlapping cells

Pérez et al. (2015)

Mobility network

Fernández-Gracia et al. (2014)

Small-world network

Yildiz et al. (2013)

Majority rule model

hierarchical structures

Galam (1999)

No specific topology

Galam (2004), Galam (2007) and Galam and Jacobs (2007)

Ising model

Interacting networks

Halu et al. (2013)

Ising model and kinetic exchange model

Lattice

Biswas and Sen (2017)

Continuous

DeGroot model

Erdős–Rényi random and scale free networks

Sobehy et al. (2017)

BC model

No specific topology

Ben-Naim (2005)