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Hartley, Tilman ORCID: 0000-0001-8080-7303 (2024). State Crisis Theory: A Unification of Institutional, Socio-ecological, Demographic-structural, World-systems, and Revolutions Research. Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution, 15 (1). pp. 1-60. Los Angles, Ca., USA: University of California: eScholarship Publishing. ISSN 2373-7530

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Abstract

[Artikel-Nr.: 1] Increasing ecological and political instability has stimulated interest in how similar problems have arisen in the past – and how they have been resolved. But this research has long been divided along different research traditions. This paper draws together five broad research strands: institutionalism, socio-ecological systems, demographic-structural theories, world-systems approaches, and revolutions research. It begins by establishing that each of these five traditions proposes to explain state crisis, in the sense of a decisive turning point from which the state might not emerge in its current form. But each of the five strands proposes a slightly different set of central hypotheses, and draws on a slightly different set of cases in support. Systematizing these hypotheses draws attention to a neglected distinction between crises that take place in different ecological-economic conditions. This is because crises that occur in conditions of worsening scarcity are hypothesized to have very different causes and trajectories to crises that occur in conditions of sufficiency. But beyond this fundamental scarcity/sufficiency distinction, there are no outright contradictions between different hypotheses. Unifying these theories of state crisis thus establishes a framework for testing these competing, but compatible, hypotheses.

Item Type:	Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Hartley, Tilman UNSPECIFIED https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8080-7303 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-805792
Identification Number:	10.21237/C7clio15163324
Journal or Publication Title:	Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution
Volume:	15
Number:	1
Page Range:	pp. 1-60
Number of Pages:	60
Date:	1 July 2024
Publisher:	University of California: eScholarship Publishing
Place of Publication:	Los Angles, Ca., USA
ISSN:	2373-7530
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences > Department of Geosciences > Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology
Subjects:	Earth sciences
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/80579