The Institute for Research on World-Systems
Parent: UC Riverside
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for March through June, 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 | 973 | 333 | 640 | 34.2% |
| 6qp8x28p | Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability | 820 | 233 | 587 | 28.4% |
| 97p470sx | Why Has the Number of International Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded since 1960? | 571 | 139 | 432 | 24.3% |
| 8jr9v920 | The Evolution of War | 489 | 43 | 446 | 8.8% |
| 9qx38718 | Seshat: The Global History Databank | 444 | 106 | 338 | 23.9% |
| 5mv6v0r1 | A Dynamic Theory of Battle Victory and Defeat | 432 | 141 | 291 | 32.6% |
| 4zf15659 | State Crisis Theory: A Unification of Institutional, Socio-ecological, Demographic-structural, World-systems, and Revolutions Research | 431 | 99 | 332 | 23.0% |
| 8cs3q9xt | A review essay on End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin (Penguin Random House 2023) | 410 | 101 | 309 | 24.6% |
| 2cz4q2jq | The Growth and Decline of the Western Roman Empire: Quantifying the Dynamics of Army Size, Territory, and Coinage | 352 | 104 | 248 | 29.5% |
| 3wc3p3hf | Early Cities in The Dawn of Everything: Shoddy Scholarship in Support of Pedestrian Conclusions | 341 | 89 | 252 | 26.1% |
| 43w3q5kp | Institutional Rigidity and Evolutionary Theory: Trapped on a Local Maximum | 334 | 202 | 132 | 60.5% |
| 93b5m968 | On Similarities between Biological and Social Evolutionary Mechanisms: Mathematical Modeling | 331 | 29 | 302 | 8.8% |
| 82s3p5hj | Toward Cliodynamics – an Analytical, Predictive Science of History | 329 | 95 | 234 | 28.9% |
| 981121t8 | Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems | 314 | 69 | 245 | 22.0% |
| 79t737gt | A Trap At The Escape From The Trap? Demographic-Structural Factors of Political Instability in Modern Africa and West Asia | 305 | 40 | 265 | 13.1% |
| 0g05k07v | A History of Possible Futures: Multipath Forecasting of Social Breakdown, Recovery, and Resilience | 292 | 75 | 217 | 25.7% |
| 15d7j27x | Never Ending Revolutions | 279 | 46 | 233 | 16.5% |
| 4gg5q63b | The Great Escape: A Review Essay on Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel (Princeton University Press, 2019) | 268 | 77 | 191 | 28.7% |
| 6n09f7gr | For Cause and Comrade: Devoted Actors and Willingness to Fight | 257 | 30 | 227 | 11.7% |
| 4b11h9k0 | A Bayesian Approach to Survivorship Bias in Historical Data Analysis | 245 | 52 | 193 | 21.2% |
| 9v71n5h4 | A ‘Perfect Storm’ in the Collapse of Bronze Age Civilization? Useful Insights and Roads not Taken | 228 | 114 | 114 | 50.0% |
| 8r85g67d | Demographic Structural Theory: 25 Years On | 227 | 66 | 161 | 29.1% |
| 4t32q1mj | Anvil Age Economy: A Map of the Spread of Iron Metallurgy across Afro-Eurasia | 222 | 31 | 191 | 14.0% |
| 2rf8c7zk | Explaining British Political Stability After 1832 | 221 | 53 | 168 | 24.0% |
| 04n6p4xr | Great Divergence of the 18th Century? | 216 | 16 | 200 | 7.4% |
| 9vq3b17g | The Actual Achievements of Early Indo-Europeans, in Accurate Historical Context | 200 | 16 | 184 | 8.0% |
| 8bm04882 | Inequality and Institutions: A Review Essay on Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson | 199 | 34 | 165 | 17.1% |
| 5j8740dz | The Roman Dominate from the Perspective of Demographic-Structural Theory | 197 | 25 | 172 | 12.7% |
| 2v8119hf | A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution | 195 | 37 | 158 | 19.0% |
| 3062j4rm | A Single Historical Continuum | 186 | 43 | 143 | 23.1% |
| 6xw505xh | Blueprint for the Global Village | 185 | 50 | 135 | 27.0% |
| 4fz417t6 | Reframing Historical Rhymes from the Dawn of Everything | 183 | 41 | 142 | 22.4% |
| 29w8q73h | The Governance and Leadership of Prehispanic Mesoamerican Polities: New Perspectives and Comparative Implications | 181 | 27 | 154 | 14.9% |
| 82g096mc | Multicultural vs. Post-Multicultural World History: A Review Essay | 180 | 12 | 168 | 6.7% |
| 3tk971d2 | Complexity in Big History | 175 | 11 | 164 | 6.3% |
| 72g2v469 | Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability in the United Kingdom after 1960: A Demographic Structural Analysis | 174 | 34 | 140 | 19.5% |
| 1sj9n878 | Circumscription Theory of the Origins of the State: A Cross-Cultural Re-Analysis | 171 | 17 | 154 | 9.9% |
| 9j45z2s3 | Stop making sense | 171 | 50 | 121 | 29.2% |
| 6jz4h6rt | International Systems and Cognitive Dissonances: beyond rational agents | 167 | 38 | 129 | 22.8% |
| 8xp4b5g3 | Adapting to Population Growth: The Evolutionary Alternative to Malthus | 166 | 49 | 117 | 29.5% |
| 99x6r11m | Fitting Dynamic Regression Models to Seshat Data | 165 | 24 | 141 | 14.5% |
| 4h29270b | Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses | 163 | 34 | 129 | 20.9% |
| 8v75n1t9 | New Patterns in Global History: A Review Essay on Strange Parallels by Victor Lieberman | 161 | 69 | 92 | 42.9% |
| 4tr2b5v0 | Rome as a Hegemon: A Portrayal and Database of its Power Projection over Seven Hundred Years | 160 | 17 | 143 | 10.6% |
| 5536t55r | Cycling in the Complexity of Early Societies | 160 | 44 | 116 | 27.5% |
| 0p5244s1 | Understanding Waves of Globalization and Resistance in the Capitalist World(-)System*:Social Movements and Critical Global(ization) Studies | 158 | 17 | 141 | 10.8% |
| 114911nd | The Evolution of Human Cooperation | 157 | 71 | 86 | 45.2% |
| 29z4c9n6 | Jewish Networks in the Spread of Early Christianity: A Mathematical Model of Marcionite and Lukan Christianities | 157 | 50 | 107 | 31.8% |
| 39z0m162 | Quantifying Trade from Renaissance Merchant Letters | 157 | 26 | 131 | 16.6% |
| 4836f93g | The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five Predictions and a Drum Roll | 155 | 56 | 99 | 36.1% |
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