Popular Delusions:  How Social Conformity Molds Society and Politics
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Chapter 6: Change and Equilibrium in Voting Conformity

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Studying Change in Collective Behavior

190

Change Over Time in Voter Turnout

195

Change Over Time in Political Party Systems

198

Theories of Cyclic Change

205

Spatial Conformity in Voting

208

Spatial Correlations for Other Behaviors

214

Entropy Limits

216

Stability in Society and Government

219

Chapter 7: Conformity Implosion

225

Warning Signs

226

Predicting Genocide

228

Weimar Germany

230

Conformity and Voting in Weimar Germany

232

Voting Change in Weimar Germany

236

Extreme Party Entropy Leads to Minority Government

237

Germany Implodes With Conformity

240

Indonesia

242

Cambodia

243

Sri Lanka

246

Rwanda

248

Malawi

250

Violent Outcomes

252

Chapter 8: Concluding Remarks

257

Conformity and Social Structure

257

Conformity and Democracy

260

Conformity and Violence

265

References

269

Index

291