The Institute for Research on World-Systems
Parent: UC Riverside
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for December, 2024 through March, 2025
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97p470sx | Why Has the Number of International Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded since 1960? | 1,344 | 187 | 1,157 | 13.9% |
| 8cs3q9xt | A review essay on End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin (Penguin Random House 2023) | 842 | 178 | 664 | 21.1% |
| 9jj9j6z7 | Resetting History’s Dial? A Critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity | 727 | 217 | 510 | 29.8% |
| 6qp8x28p | Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability | 660 | 252 | 408 | 38.2% |
| 3wc3p3hf | Early Cities in The Dawn of Everything: Shoddy Scholarship in Support of Pedestrian Conclusions | 655 | 202 | 453 | 30.8% |
| 2rf8c7zk | Explaining British Political Stability After 1832 | 534 | 294 | 240 | 55.1% |
| 4zf15659 | State Crisis Theory: A Unification of Institutional, Socio-ecological, Demographic-structural, World-systems, and Revolutions Research | 460 | 120 | 340 | 26.1% |
| 5mv6v0r1 | A Dynamic Theory of Battle Victory and Defeat | 420 | 156 | 264 | 37.1% |
| 9qx38718 | Seshat: The Global History Databank | 351 | 80 | 271 | 22.8% |
| 2cz4q2jq | The Growth and Decline of the Western Roman Empire: Quantifying the Dynamics of Army Size, Territory, and Coinage | 339 | 115 | 224 | 33.9% |
| 8jr9v920 | The Evolution of War | 328 | 42 | 286 | 12.8% |
| 6n09f7gr | For Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight | 310 | 39 | 271 | 12.6% |
| 82s3p5hj | Toward Cliodynamics – an Analytical, Predictive Science of History | 276 | 104 | 172 | 37.7% |
| 0g05k07v | A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience | 246 | 72 | 174 | 29.3% |
| 15d7j27x | Never Ending Revolutions | 237 | 63 | 174 | 26.6% |
| 981121t8 | Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems | 236 | 86 | 150 | 36.4% |
| 8bm04882 | Inequality and Institutions: A Review Essay on Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson | 219 | 52 | 167 | 23.7% |
| 4b11h9k0 | A Bayesian Approach to Survivorship Bias in Historical Data Analysis | 216 | 59 | 157 | 27.3% |
| 43w3q5kp | Institutional Rigidity and Evolutionary Theory: Trapped on a Local Maximum | 215 | 121 | 94 | 56.3% |
| 04n6p4xr | Great Divergence of the 18th Century? | 209 | 22 | 187 | 10.5% |
| 72g2v469 | Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability in the United Kingdom after 1960: A Demographic Structural Analysis | 202 | 45 | 157 | 22.3% |
| 79t737gt | A Trap At The Escape From The Trap? Demographic-Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modern Africa and West Asia | 201 | 56 | 145 | 27.9% |
| 9v71n5h4 | A ‘Perfect Storm’ in the Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization? Useful Insights and Roads not Taken | 195 | 144 | 51 | 73.8% |
| 74j910z1 | Indo-Europeans Were the Most Historically Significant Nomads of the Steppes | 189 | 64 | 125 | 33.9% |
| 8r85g67d | Demographic Structural Theory: 25 Years On | 187 | 61 | 126 | 32.6% |
| 4t32q1mj | Anvil Age Economy: A Map of the Spread of Iron Metallurgy across Afro-Eurasia | 186 | 25 | 161 | 13.4% |
| 1sj9n878 | Circumscription Theory of the Origins of the State: A Cross-Cultural Re-Analysis | 180 | 23 | 157 | 12.8% |
| 6jz4h6rt | International Systems and Cognitive Dissonances: beyond rational agents | 163 | 58 | 105 | 35.6% |
| 3062j4rm | A Single Historical Continuum | 154 | 37 | 117 | 24.0% |
| 0p5244s1 | Understanding Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World(-)System*:Social Movements and Critical Global(ization) Studies | 153 | 23 | 130 | 15.0% |
| 79b6v6tv | The Silk Roads: a Mathematical Model | 152 | 12 | 140 | 7.9% |
| 93b5m968 | On Similarities between Biological and Social Evolutionary Mechanisms: Mathematical Modeling | 152 | 29 | 123 | 19.1% |
| 8xp4b5g3 | Adapting to Population Growth: The Evolutionary Alternative to Malthus | 151 | 49 | 102 | 32.5% |
| 82g096mc | Multicultural vs. Post-Multicultural World History: A Review Essay | 147 | 12 | 135 | 8.2% |
| 63v195gz | Cultural Evolution and Cliodynamics | 142 | 31 | 111 | 21.8% |
| 4h29270b | Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses | 140 | 35 | 105 | 25.0% |
| 5j8740dz | The Roman Dominate from the Perspective of Demographic-Structural Theory | 139 | 25 | 114 | 18.0% |
| 3tk971d2 | Complexity in Big History | 135 | 16 | 119 | 11.9% |
| 2v8119hf | A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution | 133 | 36 | 97 | 27.1% |
| 29w8q73h | The Governance and Leadership of Prehispanic Mesoamerican Polities: New Perspectives and Comparative Implications | 131 | 18 | 113 | 13.7% |
| 114911nd | The Evolution of Human Cooperation | 130 | 60 | 70 | 46.2% |
| 3790p0p0 | A Review of Tim Lewens' Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges | 130 | 11 | 119 | 8.5% |
| 4836f93g | The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five Predictions and a Drum Roll | 128 | 41 | 87 | 32.0% |
| 6x84w6mm | Rediscovering Democracy: A Review of The Decline and Rise of Democracy: A Global History from Antiquity to Today by David Stasavage (Princeton University Press, 2020) | 127 | 96 | 31 | 75.6% |
| 5536t55r | Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies | 126 | 46 | 80 | 36.5% |
| 9j45z2s3 | Stop making sense | 124 | 41 | 83 | 33.1% |
| 24f0h2t3 | Introduction to Special Issue: Leading Scholars of the Past Comment on Dawn of Everything | 119 | 54 | 65 | 45.4% |
| 5gm4955z | The Big Gods of Exploitation? A Review of Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict by Ara Norenzayan (Princeton University Press, 2013) | 117 | 13 | 104 | 11.1% |
| 5bg8f4r1 | Complexities of Collapse: A Review of "Understanding Collapse: Ancient History and Modern Myths" by Guy D. Middleton (Cambridge University Press, 2017) | 114 | 15 | 99 | 13.2% |
| 99q0d3k2 | Exploring Phenomenological Models for Societal and Technological Transitions of the Neolithic Revolution and Early Civilization Formation. | 113 | 29 | 84 | 25.7% |
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