| Title | Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Year of Publication | 2003 |
| Authors | Turchin P |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| City | Princeton, NJ |
| ISBN | 0-691-11669-5 |
| Keywords | Collective Solidarity, Cultural Ethnic Soildarity, Geopolitics, mathematical models, Population Dynamics, State Collapse |
| Short Title | Hisrorical Dynamics |
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Demographic-Fiscal Model of the Growth and Collapse of Agrarian States | Model |
| The Demographic-Structural theory is an empirically derived theory of the breakdown and collapse of agrarian states, originally posited by Jack Goldstone's (1991) work on Early Modern Engalnd, France, the Ottoman Empire, and Ming China. Pulling together opposing Marxist and Malthusian expanations of state collapse, the Demographic Structural theory suggests that population pressure among the general populace and among elites places fiscal pressures on the state. When the state becomes insolvent... | 02 Oct 2016 |