Cliodynamics
Parent: The Institute for Research on World-Systems
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for May through August, 2026
| 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 | 2,656 | 1,078 | 1,578 | 40.6% |
| 6qp8x28p | Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability | 2,418 | 824 | 1,594 | 34.1% |
| 8p0176zr | On the Life Cycle of Empires | 2,235 | 376 | 1,859 | 16.8% |
| 82s3p5hj | Toward Cliodynamics – an Analytical, Predictive Science of History | 1,938 | 245 | 1,693 | 12.6% |
| 8r85g67d | Demographic Structural Theory: 25 Years On | 1,516 | 135 | 1,381 | 8.9% |
| 3mw3d3r7 | CRISES AVERTED. How A Few Past Societies Found Adaptive Reforms in the Face of Structural-Demographic Crises | 1,166 | 555 | 611 | 47.6% |
| 8cs3q9xt | A review essay on End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin (Penguin Random House 2023) | 1,118 | 209 | 909 | 18.7% |
| 9qx38718 | Seshat: The Global History Databank | 983 | 237 | 746 | 24.1% |
| 5mv6v0r1 | A Dynamic Theory of Battle Victory and Defeat | 969 | 324 | 645 | 33.4% |
| 5j8740dz | The Roman Dominate from the Perspective of Demographic-Structural Theory | 759 | 165 | 594 | 21.7% |
| 62c908fk | Seshat: Global History Databank Publishes First Set of Historical Data | 747 | 83 | 664 | 11.1% |
| 3861g21r | A Dynamic Analysis of American Socio-Political History. A Review of Ages of Discord: A Structural Demographic Analysis of American History by Peter Turchin (Beresta Books, 2016) | 738 | 115 | 623 | 15.6% |
| 3wc3p3hf | Early Cities in The Dawn of Everything: Shoddy Scholarship in Support of Pedestrian Conclusions | 714 | 249 | 465 | 34.9% |
| 4t32q1mj | Anvil Age Economy: A Map of the Spread of Iron Metallurgy across Afro-Eurasia | 711 | 336 | 375 | 47.3% |
| 58z1j452 | A Mathematical Model of Civilizational Dynamics: Quantifying Toynbee’s Challenge–Response Theory with Newtonian Mechanics | 692 | 323 | 369 | 46.7% |
| 8jr9v920 | The Evolution of War | 680 | 130 | 550 | 19.1% |
| 981121t8 | Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems | 650 | 126 | 524 | 19.4% |
| 9v71n5h4 | A ‘Perfect Storm’ in the Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization? Useful Insights and Roads not Taken | 596 | 297 | 299 | 49.8% |
| 79t737gt | A Trap At The Escape From The Trap? Demographic-Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modern Africa and West Asia | 571 | 152 | 419 | 26.6% |
| 1sj9n878 | Circumscription Theory of the Origins of the State: A Cross-Cultural Re-Analysis | 551 | 105 | 446 | 19.1% |
| 0g05k07v | A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience | 521 | 194 | 327 | 37.2% |
| 8qq4w9q5 | Mapping the Spread of Mounted Warfare | 499 | 159 | 340 | 31.9% |
| 2rf8c7zk | Explaining British Political Stability After 1832 | 494 | 94 | 400 | 19.0% |
| 72g2v469 | Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability in the United Kingdom after 1960: A Demographic Structural Analysis | 491 | 122 | 369 | 24.8% |
| 97p470sx | Why Has the Number of International Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded since 1960? | 486 | 124 | 362 | 25.5% |
| 2cz4q2jq | The Growth and Decline of the Western Roman Empire: Quantifying the Dynamics of Army Size, Territory, and Coinage | 459 | 189 | 270 | 41.2% |
| 230872k1 | Application of Mathematical Models to English Secular Cycles | 439 | 98 | 341 | 22.3% |
| 3rt8w616 | Grain Yields and the Causes of the Russian Revolution | 435 | 89 | 346 | 20.5% |
| 20p8h7j2 | Growth of human capital in the regions of the Russian Empire in 1897-1913: the role of local self-government bodies (zemstva) financing | 434 | 120 | 314 | 27.6% |
| 8v75n1t9 | New Patterns in Global History: A Review Essay on Strange Parallels by Victor Lieberman | 426 | 70 | 356 | 16.4% |
| 74j910z1 | Indo-Europeans Were the Most Historically Significant Nomads of the Steppes | 418 | 88 | 330 | 21.1% |
| 6n09f7gr | For Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight | 414 | 89 | 325 | 21.5% |
| 0jd753h6 | The Neglected Role of Inequality in Explanations of the Collapse of Ancient States | 412 | 107 | 305 | 26.0% |
| 29z4c9n6 | Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity: A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities | 411 | 177 | 234 | 43.1% |
| 1ks0g7dr | Centralization/Decentralization in the Dynamics of Afghan History | 400 | 82 | 318 | 20.5% |
| 1xt9k875 | Linking “Micro” to “Macro” Models of State Breakdown to Improve Methods for Political Forecasting | 397 | 169 | 228 | 42.6% |
| 0415c0pj | Modeling Strategic Decisions in the Formation of the Early Neo-Assyrian Empire | 394 | 136 | 258 | 34.5% |
| 4h29270b | Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses | 386 | 136 | 250 | 35.2% |
| 2v8119hf | A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution | 385 | 121 | 264 | 31.4% |
| 577293kd | The West and the Rest: The Science of the Great Divergence | 383 | 100 | 283 | 26.1% |
| 43w3q5kp | Institutional Rigidity and Evolutionary Theory: Trapped on a Local Maximum | 381 | 168 | 213 | 44.1% |
| 8bm04882 | Inequality and Institutions: A Review Essay on Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson | 371 | 77 | 294 | 20.8% |
| 7kp25961 | Toward a New Universal History? | 365 | 260 | 105 | 71.2% |
| 6244v78z | Seeing the Forest of Secular Cycles | 360 | 209 | 151 | 58.1% |
| 3tk971d2 | Complexity in Big History | 359 | 73 | 286 | 20.3% |
| 7wn9b6mn | War, Peace, and Everything: Thoughts on Tolstoy | 359 | 148 | 211 | 41.2% |
| 5536t55r | Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies | 354 | 137 | 217 | 38.7% |
| 1144d4t7 | The Origins of Western Superiority: A comment on Modes of Meta-History and Duchesne’s Indo-Europeans Article | 352 | 123 | 229 | 34.9% |
| 8xp4b5g3 | Adapting to Population Growth: The Evolutionary Alternative to Malthus | 337 | 92 | 245 | 27.3% |
| 99q0d3k2 | Exploring Phenomenological Models for Societal and Technological Transitions of the Neolithic Revolution and Early Civilization Formation. | 325 | 107 | 218 | 32.9% |
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