Cliodynamics

Parent: The Institute for Research on World-Systems

eScholarship stats: History by Item for January through April, 2025

Item	Title	Total requests	2025-04	2025-03	2025-02	2025-01
97p470sx	Why Has the Number of International Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded since 1960?	1,376	98	304	903	71
3wc3p3hf	Early Cities in The Dawn of Everything: Shoddy Scholarship in Support of Pedestrian Conclusions	657	54	83	467	53
9jj9j6z7	Resetting History’s Dial? A Critique of David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity	656	165	167	162	162
6qp8x28p	Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability	626	164	146	139	177
8cs3q9xt	A review essay on End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin (Penguin Random House 2023)	582	97	103	155	227
4zf15659	State Crisis Theory: A Unification of Institutional, Socio-ecological, Demographic-structural, World-systems, and Revolutions Research	461	141	118	83	119
5mv6v0r1	A Dynamic Theory of Battle Victory and Defeat	408	100	124	94	90
9qx38718	Seshat: The Global History Databank	373	104	109	83	77
2cz4q2jq	The Growth and Decline of the Western Roman Empire: Quantifying the Dynamics of Army Size, Territory, and Coinage	363	106	97	66	94
8jr9v920	The Evolution of War	352	87	89	98	78
82s3p5hj	Toward Cliodynamics – an Analytical, Predictive Science of History	290	77	73	57	83
6n09f7gr	For Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight	272	57	56	49	110
2rf8c7zk	Explaining British Political Stability After 1832	262	44	68	78	72
981121t8	Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems	243	58	83	56	46
0g05k07v	A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience	240	54	76	62	48
15d7j27x	Never Ending Revolutions	222	56	49	55	62
04n6p4xr	Great Divergence of the 18th Century?	210	28	90	45	47
43w3q5kp	Institutional Rigidity and Evolutionary Theory: Trapped on a Local Maximum	208	60	56	47	45
4b11h9k0	A Bayesian Approach to Survivorship Bias in Historical Data Analysis	205	52	49	50	54
4t32q1mj	Anvil Age Economy: A Map of the Spread of Iron Metallurgy across Afro-Eurasia	201	57	49	39	56
9v71n5h4	A ‘Perfect Storm’ in the Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization? Useful Insights and Roads not Taken	201	65	49	43	44
79t737gt	A Trap At The Escape From The Trap? Demographic-Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modern Africa and West Asia	195	40	48	45	62
72g2v469	Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability in the United Kingdom after 1960: A Demographic Structural Analysis	194	44	45	49	56
8bm04882	Inequality and Institutions: A Review Essay on Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson	193	37	50	51	55
8r85g67d	Demographic Structural Theory: 25 Years On	184	44	55	36	49
3062j4rm	A Single Historical Continuum	177	51	37	47	42
74j910z1	Indo-Europeans Were the Most Historically Significant Nomads of the Steppes	174	37	28	57	52
93b5m968	On Similarities between Biological and Social Evolutionary Mechanisms: Mathematical Modeling	169	52	38	41	38
2v8119hf	A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution	163	50	42	38	33
29w8q73h	The Governance and Leadership of Prehispanic Mesoamerican Polities: New Perspectives and Comparative Implications	158	42	46	41	29
1sj9n878	Circumscription Theory of the Origins of the State: A Cross-Cultural Re-Analysis	157	33	43	37	44
3tk971d2	Complexity in Big History	157	42	39	42	34
5j8740dz	The Roman Dominate from the Perspective of Demographic-Structural Theory	156	33	44	35	44
8xp4b5g3	Adapting to Population Growth: The Evolutionary Alternative to Malthus	156	42	45	37	32
79b6v6tv	The Silk Roads: a Mathematical Model	151	36	23	30	62
63v195gz	Cultural Evolution and Cliodynamics	150	37	38	39	36
82g096mc	Multicultural vs. Post-Multicultural World History: A Review Essay	148	38	43	45	22
114911nd	The Evolution of Human Cooperation	146	36	44	42	24
6jz4h6rt	International Systems and Cognitive Dissonances: beyond rational agents	146	37	32	30	47
4h29270b	Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses	144	33	40	42	29
4836f93g	The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five Predictions and a Drum Roll	138	36	29	41	32
5bg8f4r1	Complexities of Collapse: A Review of "Understanding Collapse: Ancient History and Modern Myths" by Guy D. Middleton (Cambridge University Press, 2017)	138	34	37	32	35
8v75n1t9	New Patterns in Global History: A Review Essay on Strange Parallels by Victor Lieberman	131	46	23	33	29
5536t55r	Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies	127	35	32	29	31
9j45z2s3	Stop making sense	127	30	36	39	22
3790p0p0	A Review of Tim Lewens' Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges	123	13	57	23	30
7hk1254d	Wheat flour versus rice consumption and vascular diseases: Evidence from the China Study II data	123	30	36	31	26
17j8g4dv	The Benefits and Challenges of Linked Datasets for Cliodynamics and Comparative Anthropology	121	39	32	23	27
6xw505xh	Blueprint for the Global Village	120	26	45	26	23
24f0h2t3	Introduction to Special Issue: Leading Scholars of the Past Comment on Dawn of Everything	118	32	42	20	24

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