Pathways to Power

Hayden, Brian

doi:10.1007/978-1-4899-1289-3_2

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“…Also, access to material wealth can make cooperation more overtly competitive or self-aggrandizing. In chiefdoms and Big Man societies, status often depended on sponsoring lavish feasts or gift exchanges, not only to signal personal qualities but also to generate indebtedness and reveal others' weaknesses [65]. The present study of the Tsimane provides a fruitful platform for future longitudinal studies in other societies, to further determine how particular cultural and ecological factors contribute to the relationship between cooperation and social status, and to infer the evolution of that relationship over human history.…”

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The dynamics of men's cooperation and social status in a small-scale society

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We propose that networks of cooperation and allocation of social status co-emerge in human groups. We substantiate this hypothesis with one of the first longitudinal studies of cooperation in a preindustrial society, spanning 8 years. Using longitudinal social network analysis of cooperation among men, we find large effects of kinship, reciprocity and transitivity in the nomination of cooperation partners over time. Independent of these effects, we show that (i) higher-status individuals gain more cooperation partners, and (ii) individuals gain status by cooperating with individuals of higher status than themselves. We posit that human hierarchies are more egalitarian relative to other primates species, owing in part to greater interdependence between cooperation and status hierarchy.

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“…Power differentials are likely to emerge in any interacting human population because genetic, ontogenetic and sub-cultural variation generate psychological and somatic differences among agents. Agents differ, for instance, in status-drive and Machiavellian flare, which affect their political ambition and ability [28,29]. They vary also in the intrinsic resources they embody such as physical strength, aggression, attractiveness and aesthetic talent.…”

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Population density and size facilitate interactive capacity and the rise of the state

Roscoe

Sandweiss

Robinson

2020

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Radiocarbon summed probability distribution (SPD) methods promise to illuminate the role of demography in shaping prehistoric social processes, but theories linking population indices to social organization are still uncommon. Here, we develop Power Theory, a formal model of political centralization that casts population density and size as key variables modulating the interactive capacity of political agents to construct power over others. To evaluate this argument, we generated an SPD from 755 radiocarbon dates for 10 000–1000 BP from Central, North Central and North Coast Peru, a period when Peruvian political form developed from ‘quasi-egalitarianism’ to state levels of political centralization. These data are congruent with theoretical expectations of the model but also point to an artefactual distortion previously unremarked in SPD research. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Cross-disciplinary approaches to prehistoric demography’.

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“…Hay cierta evidencia experimental de que la propensión a la dominancia social (Sidanius, 1999) no se distribuye por igual entre la población: hay unos individuos que destacan sobre otros en esta propensión (Kleppestø, y otros, 2019). También hay evidencia arqueológica que apunta en el mismo sentido (Hayden, 1995). Por ello, podemos afirmar, sin demasiado riesgo, que la propensión a la dominancia -o sus manifestaciones patológicas-es un rasgo característico de la especie humana, compartido con otras especies.…”

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Corrupción: ampliando el alcance

García

2022

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En este artículo se propone una definición múltiple de corrupción que tome en consideración los tres tipos de corrupción -individual, institucional y sistémica- susceptibles de ser encontradas en cualquier régimen político. La corrupción no aparece como una conducta «excepcional» o «anormal» sino en directa continuidad con la propensión humana a la cooperación. Se evidencia como la corrupción sistémica ha sido conceptualizada como causa del cambio de régimen político en la tradición política occidental; esta relación causal es muy relevante para explicar las actuales amenazas a las democracias modernas. Se estudian en detalle los impactos de los diferentes tipos de corrupción y se procede al cuestionamiento de la teoría del ciclo de vida de la corrupción y su relación con desarrollo económico. Se señala la necesidad de diferentes y mejores mediciones de la corrupción, que den cuenta de la corrupción sistémica, y de nuevas instituciones diseñadas para revertir su generalización en las democracias modernas.

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Pathways to Power

Cited by 281 publications

References 67 publications

The dynamics of men's cooperation and social status in a small-scale society

The dynamics of men's cooperation and social status in a small-scale society

Population density and size facilitate interactive capacity and the rise of the state

Corrupción: ampliando el alcance

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