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A Generalized Gompertz Law for the Rise and Fall of Empires
Sabin Roman, Vaishnavi Jayakumar, Karoline Wiesner
Human societies tend to evolve toward increasing scale and complexity, often followed by stagnation and decline. Historical empires provide a prominent example of this trajectory;…
Critical dynamics govern the evolution of political regimes
Joshua Uhlig, Paula Pirker-Díaz, Matthew Wilson +2
The emergence and decline of democratic systems worldwide raises fundamental questions about the dynamics of political change. Contrary to the idea of a stable endpoint of liberal…
Unraveling 20th-century political regime dynamics using the physics of diffusion
Paula Pirker-Díaz, Matthew C. Wilson, Sönke Beier +1
Uncertainty persists over how and why some countries become democratic and others do not, or why some countries remain democratic and others 'backslide' toward autocracy. Furthermo…
The principal components of electoral regimes -- Separating autocracies from pseudo-democracies
Karoline Wiesner, Samuel Bien, Matthew C. Wilson
A critical issue for society today is the emergence and decline of democracy worldwide. It is unclear, however, how democratic features, such as elections and civil liberties, infl…
Evaluating The Impact Of Species Specialisation On Ecological Network Robustness Using Analytic Methods
Chris Jones, Damaris Zurell, Karoline Wiesner
Ecological networks describe the interactions between different species, informing us of how they rely on one another for food, pollination and survival. If a species in an ecosyst…