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breakdown of political systems  

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  • The term breakdown of political systems connotes the collapse of any rule-based institutional network engaged in the allocation of scarce resources. Though this rubric could technically embrace networks ranging from empires to smaller, nonstate entities such as clans, the vast majority of the literature on the breakdown of political systems focuses on the collapse of either regimes or states. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Political Science; Breakdown of Political Systems]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-R03Q10ZH-X

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