Linking “Micro” to “Macro” Models of State Breakdown to Improve Methods for Political Forecasting

Three predictive problems bedevil our ability to foresee political crises and state breakdown: (1) how to tell when a previously stable state falls into a situation of hidden but dangerous instability; (2) how to tell, once a certain level of instability has appeared in the form of protests, riots,...

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Main Authors: Peter Turchin, Sergey Gavrilets, Jack A. Goldstone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2017-12-01
Series:Cliodynamics
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Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xt9k875