rational choice, 8

recycling, 15, 51, 59

risk factors, 191, 227, 264, 266

Senegal, 263

smoking, 40, 51, 59

sociological view, 8, 10

spillover, 15, 31, 133, 177, 261

stock market, 3, 52, 82, 191, 240

tax compliance, 50

theories, 6

typology of changes, 194

tyranny of majority, 37, 136, 225, 247

voting participation, 67, 70, 260

crime

abortion, 126

conformity, 101, 214

county analysis, 109

Germany, 118

group conformity, 103

homicide rates, 102, 115

Japan, 118

Kohlberg’s stages, 103

neighborhood disorder, 104

spatial model, 214

Texas counties, 118

turnout relationship, 113

cyclic change, 188, 198

graph, 199

randomness causing, 200

theory, 205

dealignment, 32, 221

democracy, 3, 16, 17, 37, 41, 54, 56, 260, 263

stability, 187–189, 208, 219–222, 241, 242

Denmark, 157, 162, 177, 206, 216, 221

party system change, 207

Durkheim, Emile, 102

Eastern Europe, 164, 178

economics

emergent norms, 53

herd behavior, 54

Keynes and conformity, 52

snob effect, 154

effective number of parties, 148, 169, 183

note, 24

emergent social characteristic, 53, 94, 102, 135, 190

entropy

approximate entropy, 240

average information, 98

note, 24

conformity, 80

defined, 72, 74, 78

election calculation, 79, 80

extreme limits, 76, 216, 237

party choice-turnout model, 135

perception accuracy, 83

physics, randomness, 75

predictability, 73

psychology, 76

Shannon, Claude, 72

social theories with, 75

turnout choice, 79

uncertainty, 73

equilibrium, 187, 189, 190, 200, 201

European parliament, 156

Fechner’s law, 77

Finland, 155, 161

France, 68, 157, 177

cyclic change, 204

entropy limit, 216

frequency estimation (psychology), 81

genocide, 227, 228

Harff’s model, 229

risk factors, 226