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• News & Views | 13 January 2020

  From ferromagnets to electoral instability

  An electoral model predicts that polarized and alienated voters lead to unstable elections, like phase transitions in an Ising model. Such physics-inspired models may help political scientists devise electoral reforms to quench instability.

  • Soren Jordan

• Editorial | 03 October 2012

  Forcing the issue

  The candidates in the forthcoming US presidential election have set out their opinions on scientific issues — but in the shadow of possible swingeing cuts in the science budget.