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Modeling revolutions in networked societies: learning from the Tunisian spring
Daniel Aguilar-Vel\'azquez, Denis Boyer, Robert Boyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06684 https:/…

Modeling revolutions in networked societies: learning from the Tunisian spring
Economic competition and deregulation have led to a polarization of societies between a small, increasingly powerful elite and a majority of socially excluded individuals, marginalized and unconnected to political representations. This is the breeding ground for protest movements, relayed by local ties and amplified by social networks. Based on the characteristics revealed by socio-economic research into the Arab revolutions of the 2010s, this article proposes a formalization inspired by the th…