Jack A. Goldstone
Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Jr.
Professor of Public Policy
Eminent Scholar

Publications & Research

Books
Forth-coming
A Peculiar Path: The Rise of the West in Global Context, 1500-1850. Under review, Harvard University Press.

2008
Why Europe?  The Rise of the West in World History 1500-1850.  New York: McGraw-Hill.

Improving Democracy Assistance: Building Knowledge Through Evaluations and Research:  A National Research Council Report (with Larry Garber, John Gerring, Clark Gibson, Mitchell Seligson, and Jeremy Weinstein). Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.

2003
States, Parties, and Social Movements: Protest and the Dynamics of Institutional Change (ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2001
Voice and Silence in Contentious Politics (with Ron Aminzade, Doug McAdam, Elizabeth Perry, William Sewell, Jr., Sidney Tarrow, and Charles Tilly).  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1999
Who’s Who in Political Revolutions (ed.) Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Books.

1998
The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions (Editor-in-chief) Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Books.

1993
Theories of Revolution and the East European Revolutions of 1989, a special issue of Rationality and Society (edited with Karl-Dieter Opp).  Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

1991
Revolutions of the Late Twentieth Century (edited with T.R. Gurr and F. Moshiri).  Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World.  Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.

1986
Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Studies (ed.) Belmont, CA:  Wadsworth/Thomson.
[1994] 2nd edition
[2003] 3rd edition

Recent Articles
2008
“Revolutions.”  In Handbook of Comparative Politics, ed. Neil Robinson and Todd Landman.  Beverly Hills: Sage.

“Comment on ‘Implication Analysis’” Sociological Methodology

“Modern Revolutions? Yes they are.”  Harvard International Review Web-exclusive: http://www.harvardir.org/articles/1685/

“Using Quantitative and Qualitative Models to Forecast Instability.”  US Institute of Peace Special Report 204 (March), 16 pp.

“Pathways to State Failure.” Conflict Management and Peace Science  August/Sep

“Flash Points and Tipping Points: Security Implications of Global Population Changes, 2007-2050.”  Projections: The Journal of the MacKinder Forum

“Capitalist Origins, the Advent of Modernity, and Coherent Explanation.” Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie 33: 119-133.

“Revolution,” in The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2nd edition).  ed. William A. Darity, Jr., vol. 7. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, pp. 228-231.

2007
“Unravelling the Mystery of Economic Growth.”  World Economics 8: 207-225.

“Tra vecchio e nuovo: le rivoluzioni atlantiche in una prospettiva globale.” [Something Old, Something New: The Atlantic Revolutions in Global Perspective] Contemporanea, Rivista di storia dell ‘800 e del ‘900  10: 135-139.

“Global Report on Conflict, Governance and State Fragility 2007” (with Monty G. Marshall).  Foreign Policy Bulletin 17 (Winter): 3-21.

2006
“Scarcity, Crises, and Choice,” an essay on Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.  Journal of International Affairs 59: 335-346.

“Knowledge – Not Capitalism, Faith, or Reason – was the Key to the Rise of the West.”  Historically Speaking  7: 6-10.

“A History and Sociology of Historical Sociology.”  International Journal of Comparative Sociology 47: 359-369.

“Democratic Transitions” (with David Epstein, Robert Bates, Ida Kristenson and Sharyn O’ Halloran),  American Journal of Political
Science, vol. 50, number 3 (July)

“Engineering, Culture, Innovation, and Modern Wealth Creation,” in Innovations and Entrepreneurship in Functional Regions, Uddevalla Symposium 2005, Irene Johansson, ed.  Trollhattan, Sweden: University West, pp. 455-474.

“A Historical, Not Comparative, Method:  Breakthroughs and Limitations in the Theory and Methodology of Michael Mann’s Analysis of Power,” in An Anatomy of Power: The Social Theory of Michael Mann, John A. Hall and Ralph Schroeder, eds.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 263-282.

“A Historical, Not Comparative, Method:  Breakthroughs and Limitations in the Theory and Methodology of Michael Mann’s Analysis of Power,” in The Social Theory of Michael Mann, John A. Hall and Ralph Schroeder, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 263-282.

2005
How Fast Can you Build a State? – State Building in Revolutions” (with Jaime Becker), in States and Development, Matthew Lange and Dietrich Rueschemeyer, eds.  New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, pp. 183-210.

2004
“How to Construct Stable Democracies” (with Jay Ulfelder).  The Washington Quarterly 28:1, pp. 9-10.

“Response: Reasoning about History, Sociologically.”  Sociological Methodology 34:1, pp. 35-61.

“More Social Movements or Fewer?  Beyond Political Opportunity Structures to Relational Fields.”  Theory and Society 33:3-4, pp. 333-365.

“Case Control Methods.”  In Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Beverly Hills, Sage.

“Neither Late Imperial nor Early Modern: Efflorescences and the Qing in World History,” in The Qing Formation in World-Historical Time, Lynn Struve, ed., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, vol. 1, pp. 242-302.

“It's all about State Structure -- New Findings on Revolutionary Origins from Global Data” (with Ted Robert Gurr, Monty Marshall, and Jay Ulfelder).  Homo Oeconomicus 21:3, pp. 429-455.

2003
“Europe vs. Asia: Missing Data and Misconceptions.”  Science & Society  67: 184-194.

“Comparative Historical Analysis and Knowledge Accumulation in the Study of Revolutions,” in Comparative Historical Analysis, Dietrich Reuschemeyer and James Mahoney, eds.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

“National Security and Population,” in Encyclopedia of Population, Paul Demeny and Geoffrey McNicoll, eds. New York: Macmillan, vol. 2, pp. 685-688.

2002
“Theory Development in the Study of Revolutions,” in Theory Development in Sociology, Joseph Berger and Morris Zelditch, Jr., eds.  Lanham, MD:  Rowmanand Littlefield,  pp. 194-226.

2002
“States, Terrorists, and the Clash of Civilizations,” in September 11: Context and Consequences. Craig Calhoun, Paul Price, and Ashley Timmer, eds.  New York: New Press, pp. 139-158.

“Population and Security: How Demographic Change can Lead to Violent Conflict.”  Columbia Journal of International Affairs 56: 245-263.

“Efflorescences and Economic Growth in World History: Rethinking the ‘Rise of the West’ and the British Industrial Revolution.” Journal of  World History 13: 323-389.

“Forging Social Order and Its Breakdown: Riot and Reform in U.S. Prisons.”          (with Bert Useem).  American Sociological Review 67:499-525.

“The Longue Dureé and Cycles of Revolt in European History,” in Early Modern History and the Social Sciences: Testing the Limits of Braudel’s Mediterranean, John Marino, ed. Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, pp. 169-187.

2001
“Population and Progress in the Middle Ages,” Population and Development Review 27: 585-596.

“Population, Environment, and Security: An Overview,” in Demography and Security, Myron Weiner and Sharon Stanton Russell, eds.  Oxford: Berghahn,  pp. 38-61.

“Demography, Environment, and Security,” in Environmental Security, Paul Diehl and Nils Petter Gleditsch, eds.  Boulder, CO: Westview Press, pp. 84-108.

“Theories of Revolution, The Revolutions of 1989-1991, and the Trajectory            of the ‘New’ Russia” [in Russian].  Voprosy Ekonomiki 1:117-123.

“Toward a Fourth Generation of Revolutionary Theory,” Annual Review of Political Science 4:139-187.

2000
“Whose Measure of Reality?”  American Historical Review 105: 501-508.

“The State,” in The Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd ed. Edgar Borgatta and Rhonda J.V. Montgomery, eds.  New York: Macmillan, pp. 2996-3003.

“The Rise of the West -- or Not?  A Revision to Socio-economic History.” Sociological Theory 18: 157-194.