Cliodynamics

Parent: The Institute for Research on World-Systems

eScholarship stats: History by Item for September through December, 2024

Item	Title	Total requests	2024-12	2024-11	2024-10	2024-09
9jj9j6z7	Resetting History’s Dial? A Critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity	994	236	224	301	233
6qp8x28p	Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability	691	198	165	153	175
8cs3q9xt	A review essay on End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin (Penguin Random House 2023)	597	357	115	68	57
2rf8c7zk	Explaining British Political Stability After 1832	555	316	77	91	71
4zf15659	State Crisis Theory: A Unification of Institutional, Socio-ecological, Demographic-structural, World-systems, and Revolutions Research	478	140	141	113	84
5mv6v0r1	A Dynamic Theory of Battle Victory and Defeat	404	112	112	99	81
3wc3p3hf	Early Cities in The Dawn of Everything: Shoddy Scholarship in Support of Pedestrian Conclusions	341	52	46	50	193
9qx38718	Seshat: The Global History Databank	335	82	82	102	69
2cz4q2jq	The Growth and Decline of the Western Roman Empire: Quantifying the Dynamics of Army Size, Territory, and Coinage	271	82	57	76	56
8bm04882	Inequality and Institutions: A Review Essay on Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson	271	63	46	129	33
82g096mc	Multicultural vs. Post-Multicultural World History: A Review Essay	263	37	87	124	15
8jr9v920	The Evolution of War	262	63	71	69	59
97p470sx	Why Has the Number of International Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded since 1960?	259	66	69	71	53
1sj9n878	Circumscription Theory of the Origins of the State: A Cross-Cultural Re-Analysis	248	56	41	82	69
6n09f7gr	For Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight	246	95	60	51	40
981121t8	Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems	244	51	52	82	59
15d7j27x	Never Ending Revolutions	239	71	75	55	38
74j910z1	Indo-Europeans Were the Most Historically Significant Nomads of the Steppes	239	52	50	69	68
4b11h9k0	A Bayesian Approach to Survivorship Bias in Historical Data Analysis	233	63	60	59	51
72g2v469	Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability in the United Kingdom after 1960: A Demographic Structural Analysis	229	52	80	59	38
6jz4h6rt	International Systems and Cognitive Dissonances: beyond rational agents	225	54	39	52	80
9v71n5h4	A ‘Perfect Storm’ in the Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization? Useful Insights and Roads not Taken	216	59	57	59	41
0g05k07v	A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience	204	60	47	51	46
82s3p5hj	Toward Cliodynamics – an Analytical, Predictive Science of History	185	63	47	50	25
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)	164	43	41	44	36
8r85g67d	Demographic Structural Theory: 25 Years On	160	47	43	40	30
79b6v6tv	The Silk Roads: a Mathematical Model	159	37	37	58	27
8xp4b5g3	Adapting to Population Growth: The Evolutionary Alternative to Malthus	153	37	39	42	35
3062j4rm	A Single Historical Continuum	151	28	31	45	47
43w3q5kp	Institutional Rigidity and Evolutionary Theory: Trapped on a Local Maximum	151	67	34	24	26
49k6n01t	Factors of Deconsolidation of the Liberal Democracy Regime. The Case of the United States of America	148	21	45	42	40
79t737gt	A Trap At The Escape From The Trap? Demographic-Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modern Africa and West Asia	147	46	31	38	32
4t32q1mj	Anvil Age Economy: A Map of the Spread of Iron Metallurgy across Afro-Eurasia	145	42	26	40	37
4h29270b	Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses	134	29	39	46	20
8v75n1t9	New Patterns in Global History: A Review Essay on Strange Parallels by Victor Lieberman	131	24	24	61	22
5536t55r	Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies	129	34	44	39	12
99q0d3k2	Exploring Phenomenological Models for Societal and Technological Transitions of the Neolithic Revolution and Early Civilization Formation.	125	43	35	22	25
5j8740dz	The Roman Dominate from the Perspective of Demographic-Structural Theory	122	16	38	41	27
24f0h2t3	Introduction to Special Issue: Leading Scholars of the Past Comment on Dawn of Everything	121	33	39	34	15
93b5m968	On Similarities between Biological and Social Evolutionary Mechanisms: Mathematical Modeling	120	35	30	29	26
4836f93g	The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five Predictions and a Drum Roll	114	26	40	26	22
5h97m84x	The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis Facilitates Evolutionary Models of Culture Change	111	30	28	26	27
114911nd	The Evolution of Human Cooperation	108	20	48	25	15
2v8119hf	A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution	107	20	12	34	41
63v195gz	Cultural Evolution and Cliodynamics	105	29	27	28	21
17j8g4dv	The Benefits and Challenges of Linked Datasets for Cliodynamics and Comparative Anthropology	101	26	22	29	24
1xk1p4n8	Social Structure in the Explanation and Prediction of Social Discontinuities: A Response to Lempert's Critique of the Multipath Forecasting Project (MFP)	101	20	31	25	25
3tk971d2	Complexity in Big History	101	20	25	20	36
8qq4w9q5	Mapping the Spread of Mounted Warfare	100	19	19	27	35
9n8560x3	State Formation in Hawai’i	100	23	25	28	24

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