Collective Dynamics and Complex Social Systems

This corpus presents a closed and non-predictive scientific framework dedicated to the structural analysis of complex social systems through the Crowd-Based Dynamics (CBD) model. Societies are treated as adaptive collective systems governed by mimetic accumulation, normative saturation, and temporal loss of social governability, independently of moral judgments, cultural content, or individual intentions. The corpus is structured into four complementary documents. Document I establishes the foundational structural laws governing social systems, including mimetic memory, normative saturation, and regime dynamics. Document II provides a rigorous diagnostic methodology for identifying social regimes, transitions, and trajectories without predictive or prescriptive intent. Document III formalizes social governability, its temporal degradation, and the irreversible limits of normative intervention, including the application of the Sterking Limit to social systems. Document IV defines the conditions for responsible institutional implementation, framing the CBD framework as a tool for social governability audit rather than social engineering or behavioral control. Together, these documents constitute a coherent, theoretically closed framework for analyzing social stability, crisis, and irreversibility as collective phenomena. The corpus is intended for scientific research, comparative social analysis, and institutional auditing, without normative, predictive, or policy-oriented claims.

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SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository
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2026-02-05
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18490114
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Complex Systems and Decision Making
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Collective Dynamics and Complex Social Systems

Wilson John Sterking Lauret
SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository
Complex Systems and Decision Making
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Collective Dynamics and Complex Social Systems

Wilson John Sterking Lauret
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Abstract

This corpus presents a closed and non-predictive scientific framework dedicated to the structural analysis of complex social systems through the Crowd-Based Dynamics (CBD) model. Societies are treated as adaptive collective systems governed by mimetic accumulation, normative saturation, and temporal loss of social governability, independently of moral judgments, cultural content, or individual intentions. The corpus is structured into four complementary documents. Document I establishes the foundational structural laws governing social systems, including mimetic memory, normative saturation, and regime dynamics. Document II provides a rigorous diagnostic methodology for identifying social regimes, transitions, and trajectories without predictive or prescriptive intent. Document III formalizes social governability, its temporal degradation, and the irreversible limits of normative intervention, including the application of the Sterking Limit to social systems. Document IV defines the conditions for responsible institutional implementation, framing the CBD framework as a tool for social governability audit rather than social engineering or behavioral control. Together, these documents constitute a coherent, theoretically closed framework for analyzing social stability, crisis, and irreversibility as collective phenomena. The corpus is intended for scientific research, comparative social analysis, and institutional auditing, without normative, predictive, or policy-oriented claims.

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