Modelling Norms

• Main Authors: Elsenbroich, Corinna (Author), Gilbert, Nigel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Computer simulation.; Application software.; Criminology.; Social Sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Simulation and Modeling.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.

The book focusses on questions of individual and collective action, the emergence and dynamics of social norms and the feedback between individual behaviour and social phenomena. It discusses traditional modelling approaches to social norms and shows the usefulness of agent-based modelling for the s...