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State Breakdown in the English Revolution: A New Synthesis
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This paper developed and tested a formal time-series model of the pressures leading to state breakdown in England in 1640-42 and applied a quantitative analysis to the logic of structural-historical studies of revolution that generally proceed in a qualitative fashion.Abstract:
This essay develops and tests a formal time-series model of the pressures leading to state breakdown in England in 1640-42. The model has several novel features: it applies a quantitative analysis to the logic of structural-historical studies of revolution that generally proceed in a qualitative fashion; it yields a strong prediction of political crisis in mid-17th-century England and of relative stability in the preceding and succeeding centuries; and it helps resolve several problems in the historiography of the English Revolution and the current theory of revolutions.read more
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