Rein Taagepera (Irvine University of California), Miroslav Nemcok (Norway University of Oslo)

More People, Fewer States

The Past and Future of World Population and Empire Sizes

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Produktbeschreibung

Delve into an exploration of 5000 years of global history, meticulously examining the growth, structure, and decline of empires and states amidst world population boom and socio-technological progress. this book offers a non-western periodization of world history, providing insights into the past while projecting visions for the future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781009427838
• ISBN-10: 1009427830
• Artikelnr.: 69834210

Autorenporträt

Rein Taagepera, Ph.D. in physics, received in 2008 the Johan Skytte Prize, the largest in political science worldwide. His books include Predicting Party Sizes (2007), Making Social Sciences More Scientific (2008), and (with Matthew Shugart) Votes from Seats: Logical Models of Electoral Systems (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

1. More People and yet Fewer States
2. Two Phases in World Population Growth: A Novel Visualization and a Logical Model
3. Did Written Records Give a New Boost to Population Growth? 4. From Populations to Empires and The Role of Technology
5. Empires: Definitions, Measurements, and Growth-Decline Curves
6. Talkers, Doers, Regulators, and Followers: A Conceptual Framework for States
7. From Pecking Order to Political Order
8. Runner Empires (-3000 to -600)
9. Early Rider Empires (-600 to +600)
10. An Apparent Dead-End: Republics
11. Stirrup Empires (600 to 1200)
12. The Last Rider Empires (1200 to 1800)
13. Engineer Empires (from 1800 on)
14. How Top States Have Become Larger
15. How the Number of States Has Decreased - and What's Ahead
16. Population Density, and Connecting World and Top State Populations
17. Growth-Decline Patterns and Durations of Empires
18. Empire Shapes, Languages, and Reigns
19. Cities and Empires
20. How History Fades - and Expands
21. The Future of the Super-Cancer of the of Biosphere.