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Jack Andrew Goldstone

Jack Andrew Goldstone

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Political Science

D-Index
59
Citations
21269
World Ranking
117
National Ranking
69

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jack Andrew Goldstone is affiliated with George Mason University in the United States and specializes primarily in the social sciences, with a focus on sociology, political science, and economics. Their body of work spans several interconnected subfields, including sociology and political science, general economics, econometrics and finance, political science and international relations, and demography.

Goldstone's recent publications demonstrate engagement with a range of topics related to social movements, historical processes, democracy, and revolutionary theory. Notable papers include:

  • The paradox of victory: social movement fields, adverse outcomes, and social movement success (2021, Theory and Society)
  • Dating the Great Divergence (2021, Journal of Global History)
  • Demography and the Future of Democracy (2020, Perspectives on Politics)
  • You can't always get what you want: why revolutionary outcomes so often diverge from revolutionary goals (2023, Public Choice)
  • The Generations of Revolutionary Theory Revisited: New Works and the Evolution of Theory (2024, Critical Sociology)

Throughout their career, Goldstone has contributed frequently to several academic journals. The most recurrent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Global History
  • Critical Sociology
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Полис Политические исследования
  • Cliodynamics The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution

Goldstone's research covers thematic areas such as economic development and digital transformation, economic and technological innovation, world systems and global transformations, political conflict and governance, historical studies and socio-cultural analysis, historical economic and social studies, and global maternal and child health.

  • Economic Development and Digital Transformation
  • Economic and Technological Innovation
  • World Systems and Global Transformations
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis
  • Historical Economic and Social Studies
  • Global Maternal and Child Health

Frequent collaborators in Goldstone's work include Леонид Гринин, Andrey Korotayev, John F. May, Андрей Коротаев, and Bert Useem. These partnerships have resulted in several coauthored publications contributing to the fields of history, political science, and sociology.

In recognition of scholarly contributions, Goldstone was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2014.

Best Publications

  • A Global Model for Forecasting Political Instability

    Jack A. Goldstone;Robert H. Bates;David L. Epstein;Ted Robert Gurr

  • Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World

    David Faure;Jack A. Goldstone

  • Toward a Fourth Generation of Revolutionary Theory

    Jack Andrew Goldstone

  • THREAT (AND OPPORTUNITY): POPULAR ACTION AND STATE RESPONSE IN THE DYNAMICS OF CONTENTIOUS ACTION

    Jack Andrew Goldstone;Charles Tilly

  • Population and Security: How Demographic Change Can Lead to Violent Conflict

    Jack Andrew Goldstone

  • Efflorescences and Economic Growth in World History: Rethinking the "Rise of the West" and the Industrial Revolution

    Jack Andrew Goldstone

  • Democratic Transitions

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  • Initial Conditions, General Laws, Path Dependence, and Explanation in Historical Sociology1

    Jack A. Goldstone

  • States, parties, and social movements

    Jack Andrew Goldstone

  • Understanding the Revolutions of 2011: Weakness and Resilience in Middle Eastern Autocracies

    Jack Andrew Goldstone

  • Structure and Change in Economic History [Book review]

    Jack A. Goldstone;Douglass C. North

  • More social movements or fewer? Beyond political opportunity structures to relational fields

    Jack Andrew Goldstone

  • Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics

    Ronald R. Aminzade;Jack A. Goldstone;Doug McAdam;Elizabeth J. Perry

  • Theories of Revolution: The Third Generation

    Jack Andrew Goldstone

  • INTRODUCTION: BRIDGING INSTITUTIONALIZED AND NONINSTITUTIONALIZED POLITICS

    Jack Andrew Goldstone

  • One effect to rule them all? A comment on climate and conflict

    H. Buhaug;H. Buhaug;J. Nordkvelle;T. Bernauer;T. Böhmelt

  • Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies

    Jack Andrew Goldstone

  • The new population bomb: The four megatrends that will change the world

    Jack Andrew Goldstone

  • State Failure Task Force Report: Phase II Findings

    Daniel C. Esty;Jack A. Goldstone;Ted Robert Gurr;Barbara Harff

  • The Problem of the “Early Modern” World

    Jack Andrew Goldstone

  • Prison Riots as Microrevolutions: An Extension of State-Centered Theories of Revolution

    Jack Andrew Goldstone;Bert Useem

  • Political Demography: How Population Changes Are Reshaping International Security and National Politics

    Jack A. Goldstone;Eric P. Kauffman;Monica Duffy Toft

  • The Coming Chinese Collapse

    Jack A. Goldstone

  • Demography, Environment, and Security

    Jack Andrew Goldstone

  • Phases of global demographic transition correlate with phases of the Great Divergence and Great Convergence

    Andrey V. Korotayev;Jack Andrew Goldstone;Jack Andrew Goldstone;Julia Zinkina

  • How to Construct Stable Democracies

    Jack Andrew Goldstone;Jay Ulfelder

  • Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World

    Jack Andrew Goldstone

Frequent Co-Authors

Ted Robert Gurr
Ted Robert Gurr University of Maryland, College Park
Erik Gartzke
Erik Gartzke University of California, San Diego
Nils Petter Gleditsch
Nils Petter Gleditsch Peace Research Institute
Robert H. Bates
Robert H. Bates Harvard University
Doug McAdam
Doug McAdam Stanford University
Halvard Buhaug
Halvard Buhaug Peace Research Institute
Richard S. J. Tol
Richard S. J. Tol University of Sussex
Sidney Tarrow
Sidney Tarrow Cornell University
Jürgen Scheffran
Jürgen Scheffran Universität Hamburg

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