Democracy Paradox

Peter Turchin Wants to Avoid Political Disintegration


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If you have grown up in a household which had decent quality of life and now you are struggling, you cannot even match the degree of wellbeing that your parents achieved, this is very obvious and makes people feel completely dissatisfied with the system that we have now.

Peter Turchin

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A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com.

Peter is a complexity scientist who has established a new field of social science research called cliodynamics. He is the author of the book End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration,

Key Highlights

  • Introduction - 0:45
  • The Crisis - 3:05
  • Elites - 11:54
  • Popular Immiseration - 30:59
  • Cliodynamics - 43:40


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End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution

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