Modeling the Spiral of Sociocultural Evolution of within- and Inter-Polity Systems

Hiroko Inoue, University of California, Riverside
Chris Chase-Dunn, University of California, Riverside

This paper presents the findings of comparative world-systems research regarding the causes of upsweeps in polity and settlement sizes and develops a model of the causality of increases in the scale of human sociocultural organization to better understand the empirical findings. To this end, we integrate our original "iteration model" the models across disciplines that add within-polity dynamics to the original regional- and world-systemic dynamics.

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 Presented in Session 240. Settlement and Places