Figure 2

Polarization model. In our model, the political spectrum consists of N different states and is divided in three groups: liberal, neutral, and conservative. For illustrative purposes, we set \(N=9\) in this example. The transition probabilities are denoted by \(\{p_{i}\}_{i\in \{1,\dots,9\}}\) and \(\{q_{i}\}_{i\in \{1,\dots,9\}}\)