In competitive threshold models, fixed thresholds lead to fragmentation at high resistance while fluid thresholds produce winner-takes-all consensus, with discontinuous transitions in both cases.
Coleman, Introduction to Mathematical Sociology, Free Press Glen- coe, London, 1964
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Competitive Social Mobilization in Threshold Models of Collective Action
In competitive threshold models, fixed thresholds lead to fragmentation at high resistance while fluid thresholds produce winner-takes-all consensus, with discontinuous transitions in both cases.