Evolution of Electoral Preferences for a Regime of Three Political Parties

Figure 2

The confidence bounds are (top row); (middle row), and (bottom row). . Function is used on left column and on the right. In the top row, a single cluster appears. In the middle row, initially two clusters appear, which finally merge. In the lower row, three clusters, with about one-third of the population, appear. Strong consensus appears always, in all three cases, according to Theorem 3.