The Institute for Research on World-Systems
Parent: UC Riverside
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for October, 2024 through January, 2025
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9jj9j6z7 | Resetting History’s Dial? A Critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity | 923 | 285 | 638 | 30.9% |
| 8cs3q9xt | A review essay on End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin (Penguin Random House 2023) | 767 | 185 | 582 | 24.1% |
| 6qp8x28p | Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability | 693 | 293 | 400 | 42.3% |
| 2rf8c7zk | Explaining British Political Stability After 1832 | 556 | 295 | 261 | 53.1% |
| 4zf15659 | State Crisis Theory: A Unification of Institutional, Socio-ecological, Demographic-structural, World-systems, and Revolutions Research | 513 | 144 | 369 | 28.1% |
| 5mv6v0r1 | A Dynamic Theory of Battle Victory and Defeat | 413 | 139 | 274 | 33.7% |
| 9qx38718 | Seshat: The Global History Databank | 343 | 70 | 273 | 20.4% |
| 6n09f7gr | For Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight | 316 | 45 | 271 | 14.2% |
| 2cz4q2jq | The Growth and Decline of the Western Roman Empire: Quantifying the Dynamics of Army Size, Territory, and Coinage | 309 | 107 | 202 | 34.6% |
| 8bm04882 | Inequality and Institutions: A Review Essay on Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson | 293 | 76 | 217 | 25.9% |
| 8jr9v920 | The Evolution of War | 281 | 38 | 243 | 13.5% |
| 97p470sx | Why Has the Number of International Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded since 1960? | 277 | 130 | 147 | 46.9% |
| 82g096mc | Multicultural vs. Post-Multicultural World History: A Review Essay | 270 | 13 | 257 | 4.8% |
| 15d7j27x | Never Ending Revolutions | 263 | 71 | 192 | 27.0% |
| 72g2v469 | Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability in the United Kingdom after 1960: A Demographic Structural Analysis | 247 | 38 | 209 | 15.4% |
| 82s3p5hj | Toward Cliodynamics – an Analytical, Predictive Science of History | 243 | 102 | 141 | 42.0% |
| 4b11h9k0 | A Bayesian Approach to Survivorship Bias in Historical Data Analysis | 236 | 82 | 154 | 34.7% |
| 981121t8 | Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems | 231 | 107 | 124 | 46.3% |
| 1sj9n878 | Circumscription Theory of the Origins of the State: A Cross-Cultural Re-Analysis | 223 | 28 | 195 | 12.6% |
| 74j910z1 | Indo-Europeans Were the Most Historically Significant Nomads of the Steppes | 223 | 55 | 168 | 24.7% |
| 9v71n5h4 | A ‘Perfect Storm’ in the Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization? Useful Insights and Roads not Taken | 219 | 158 | 61 | 72.1% |
| 0g05k07v | A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience | 206 | 68 | 138 | 33.0% |
| 3wc3p3hf | Early Cities in The Dawn of Everything: Shoddy Scholarship in Support of Pedestrian Conclusions | 201 | 61 | 140 | 30.3% |
| 79b6v6tv | The Silk Roads: a Mathematical Model | 194 | 8 | 186 | 4.1% |
| 6jz4h6rt | International Systems and Cognitive Dissonances: beyond rational agents | 192 | 55 | 137 | 28.6% |
| 0p5244s1 | Understanding Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World(-)System*:Social Movements and Critical Global(ization) Studies | 180 | 29 | 151 | 16.1% |
| 8r85g67d | Demographic Structural Theory: 25 Years On | 179 | 56 | 123 | 31.3% |
| 79t737gt | A Trap At The Escape From The Trap? Demographic-Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modern Africa and West Asia | 177 | 56 | 121 | 31.6% |
| 43w3q5kp | Institutional Rigidity and Evolutionary Theory: Trapped on a Local Maximum | 170 | 95 | 75 | 55.9% |
| 4t32q1mj | Anvil Age Economy: A Map of the Spread of Iron Metallurgy across Afro-Eurasia | 164 | 19 | 145 | 11.6% |
| 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) | 152 | 127 | 25 | 83.6% |
| 8xp4b5g3 | Adapting to Population Growth: The Evolutionary Alternative to Malthus | 150 | 47 | 103 | 31.3% |
| 5536t55r | Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies | 148 | 61 | 87 | 41.2% |
| 3062j4rm | A Single Historical Continuum | 146 | 38 | 108 | 26.0% |
| 49k6n01t | Factors of Deconsolidation of the Liberal Democracy Regime. The Case of the United States of America | 143 | 20 | 123 | 14.0% |
| 4h29270b | Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses | 143 | 48 | 95 | 33.6% |
| 5j8740dz | The Roman Dominate from the Perspective of Demographic-Structural Theory | 139 | 30 | 109 | 21.6% |
| 8v75n1t9 | New Patterns in Global History: A Review Essay on Strange Parallels by Victor Lieberman | 138 | 97 | 41 | 70.3% |
| 93b5m968 | On Similarities between Biological and Social Evolutionary Mechanisms: Mathematical Modeling | 132 | 33 | 99 | 25.0% |
| 24f0h2t3 | Introduction to Special Issue: Leading Scholars of the Past Comment on Dawn of Everything | 130 | 50 | 80 | 38.5% |
| 04n6p4xr | Great Divergence of the 18th Century? | 125 | 20 | 105 | 16.0% |
| 4836f93g | The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five Predictions and a Drum Roll | 124 | 45 | 79 | 36.3% |
| 63v195gz | Cultural Evolution and Cliodynamics | 120 | 31 | 89 | 25.8% |
| 5gm4955z | The Big Gods of Exploitation? A Review of Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict by Ara Norenzayan (Princeton University Press, 2013) | 118 | 10 | 108 | 8.5% |
| 114911nd | The Evolution of Human Cooperation | 117 | 69 | 48 | 59.0% |
| 99q0d3k2 | Exploring Phenomenological Models for Societal and Technological Transitions of the Neolithic Revolution and Early Civilization Formation. | 117 | 30 | 87 | 25.6% |
| 5h97m84x | The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Facilitates Evolutionary Models of Culture Change | 110 | 11 | 99 | 10.0% |
| 1xk1p4n8 | Social Structure in the Explanation and Prediction of Social Discontinuities: A Response to Lempert's Critique of the Multipath Forecasting Project (MFP) | 106 | 10 | 96 | 9.4% |
| 9n8560x3 | State Formation in Hawai’i | 106 | 9 | 97 | 8.5% |
| 17j8g4dv | The Benefits and Challenges of Linked Datasets for Cliodynamics and Comparative Anthropology | 104 | 17 | 87 | 16.3% |
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