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• The power of silence? opinion contagion and the surprise of the polish 2005 parlamentary and presidential elections

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  • E. Bartha
  • J. Wolszczak-Derlacz

  - Polish Sociological Review - Year 2009

  This paper investigates opinion contagion in collective behaviour using threshold model (Granovetter (1978), Krassa(1988)). The theoretical background is the spiral of silence concept developed by Noelle-Neumann (1974), arguing that people only assert their opinions if they perceive a minimal support from a relevant proportion of others. We apply the model to explain the dispersion between pre-elections preferences and the final...

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