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most citedThe principal components of electoral regimes -- Separating autocracies from pseudo-democracies

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physics.soc-ph2026

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;…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

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…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 2 cited

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…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 2 cited

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…

q-bio.PE2023

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…