Carolina Quotes[D]isease outbreaks occur much more frequently during... crisis periods. Such epidemics historically have had a disproportionate effect on the less advantaged... and the Covid-19 pandemic was not an exception. ...[I]n terms of structural-demographic theory... the pandemic... further worsened the well-being of large swaths of the American population... consequently, drove up the mass-mobilization potential. ...[G]overnmental dysfunction in dealing with the pandemic, coupled with intra-elite infighting, will likely further depress... trust in government institutions. Thus... the coronavirus has... further destabilize[d] the American polity.
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Postscript Ref: P. Turchin, "Modeling periodic waves of integration in the Afro-Eurasian world-system" Globalization as Evolutionary Process: Modeling Global Change (2008) ed., G Modelski, T Devezas, WR Thompson, p. 163–91.
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- The 2010 structural-demographic forecast for the 2010–2020 decade (Aug 17, 2020)
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