Cliodynamics

Parent: The Institute for Research on World-Systems

eScholarship stats: History by Item for December, 2024 through March, 2025

ItemTitleTotal requests2025-032025-022025-012024-12
97p470sxWhy Has the Number of International Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded since 1960?1,3443049037166
8cs3q9xtA review essay on End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin (Penguin Random House 2023)842103155227357
9jj9j6z7Resetting History’s Dial? A Critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity727167162162236
6qp8x28pModeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability660146139177198
3wc3p3hfEarly Cities in The Dawn of Everything: Shoddy Scholarship in Support of Pedestrian Conclusions655834675352
2rf8c7zkExplaining British Political Stability After 1832534687872316
4zf15659State Crisis Theory: A Unification of Institutional, Socio-ecological, Demographic-structural, World-systems, and Revolutions Research46011883119140
5mv6v0r1A Dynamic Theory of Battle Victory and Defeat4201249490112
9qx38718Seshat: The Global History Databank351109837782
2cz4q2jqThe Growth and Decline of the Western Roman Empire: Quantifying the Dynamics of Army Size, Territory, and Coinage33997669482
8jr9v920The Evolution of War32889987863
6n09f7grFor Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight310564911095
82s3p5hjToward Cliodynamics – an Analytical, Predictive Science of History27673578363
0g05k07vA History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience24676624860
15d7j27xNever Ending Revolutions23749556271
981121t8Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems23683564651
8bm04882Inequality and Institutions: A Review Essay on Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson21950515563
4b11h9k0A Bayesian Approach to Survivorship Bias in Historical Data Analysis21649505463
43w3q5kpInstitutional Rigidity and Evolutionary Theory: Trapped on a Local Maximum21556474567
04n6p4xrGreat Divergence of the 18th Century?20990454727
72g2v469Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability in the United Kingdom after 1960: A Demographic Structural Analysis20245495652
79t737gtA Trap At The Escape From The Trap? Demographic-Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modern Africa and West Asia20148456246
9v71n5h4A ‘Perfect Storm’ in the Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization? Useful Insights and Roads not Taken19549434459
74j910z1Indo-Europeans Were the Most Historically Significant Nomads of the Steppes18928575252
8r85g67dDemographic Structural Theory: 25 Years On18755364947
4t32q1mjAnvil Age Economy: A Map of the Spread of Iron Metallurgy across Afro-Eurasia18649395642
1sj9n878Circumscription Theory of the Origins of the State: A Cross-Cultural Re-Analysis18043374456
6jz4h6rtInternational Systems and Cognitive Dissonances: beyond rational agents16332304754
3062j4rmA Single Historical Continuum15437474228
79b6v6tvThe Silk Roads: a Mathematical Model15223306237
93b5m968On Similarities between Biological and Social Evolutionary Mechanisms: Mathematical Modeling15238413835
8xp4b5g3Adapting to Population Growth: The Evolutionary Alternative to Malthus15145373237
82g096mcMulticultural vs. Post-Multicultural World History: A Review Essay14743452237
63v195gzCultural Evolution and Cliodynamics14238393629
4h29270bAgricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses14040422929
5j8740dzThe Roman Dominate from the Perspective of Demographic-Structural Theory13944354416
3tk971d2Complexity in Big History13539423420
2v8119hfA Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution13342383320
29w8q73hThe Governance and Leadership of Prehispanic Mesoamerican Polities: New Perspectives and Comparative Implications13146412915
114911ndThe Evolution of Human Cooperation13044422420
3790p0p0A Review of Tim Lewens' Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges13057233020
4836f93gThe Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five Predictions and a Drum Roll12829413226
6x84w6mmRediscovering Democracy: A Review of The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today by David Stasavage (Princeton University Press, 2020)12725352443
5536t55rCycling in the Complexity of Early Societies12632293134
9j45z2s3Stop making sense12436392227
24f0h2t3Introduction to Special Issue: Leading Scholars of the Past Comment on Dawn of Everything11942202433
5gm4955zThe Big Gods of Exploitation? A Review of Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict by Ara Norenzayan (Princeton University Press, 2013)11727273825
5bg8f4r1Complexities of Collapse: A Review of "Understanding Collapse: Ancient History and Modern Myths" by Guy D. Middleton (Cambridge University Press, 2017)11437323510
1xt9k875Linking “Micro” to “Macro” Models of State Breakdown to Improve Methods for Political Forecasting11333232730
99q0d3k2Exploring Phenomenological Models for Societal and Technological Transitions of the Neolithic Revolution and Early Civilization Formation.11331221743

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