BRUNK, Gregory G <br/><br/>
Self-organized criticality :  a new theory of political behaviour and some  of its implications 

 -  2001 
<br/><br/> Adopting a particular non-linear perspective resolver numerous paradoxes about collective political behaviour. Self-organized criticality occurs if the sensivity of individuals or groups to each other`s actions increases with the passage of time, and, therefore, sudden changes may occur as cascades. In this way scandals, betrayals, miscalculations and other seemingly insigficant actions can sometimes cause cabinet dissolutions, strikes, riots, electoral landslides, wars and a multitude of other phenomena that, until now, have seemed to have had nothing in common