| Allen, Martin G. | 1972 | "Political integration, social stratification, size of community and class stratification are correlated with crime" (266) | Supported | 5 | |
| Blum, Richard H. | 1969 | "When political integration is the large state, little state, or the minimal state, then: [alcohol use is by adults only; moderate or no use of alcohol occurs; and tobacco is used by adults only]" (165-166) | Supported | 3 | |
| Aberle, David F. | 1961 | "[If political integration is dichotomized into systems with authoritative regulation above the community level and systems at or below the community level] it is possible to see a regular progression among the systems with any agricultural base. As we go from 'plough' agriculture to 'African horticulture,' and thence to 'dominant horticulture' and 'other horticulture,' the percentage of cases at or below the community level rises regularly . . ." (681) | Supported | 2 | |
| Aberle, David F. | 1961 | "Both matrilineal and patrilineal systems tend to cluster at the 'minimal state' level by comparison with bilateral systems, which tend to appear at the extremes of political scope" (684) | Supported | 2 | |
| Herzog, John D. | 1962 | ". . . a high correlation between the degree of political integration of a society and the presence and absence of what was called 'religious education' [deliberate instruction by non-kin without change of residence]" (312) | Supported | 2 | |
| Herzog, John D. | 1962 | "With regard to Type II instruction [deliberate instruction by non-kin without change of residence], societies with different household types are affected dissimilarly by political integration" (319) | Supported | 3 | |
| Otterbein, Keith F. | 1965 | "If political complexity has any influence on feuding, there should be a higher correlation between presence of fraternal interest groups and feuding in societies with a low level of political integration than in societies [with] a high level of political integration" (1476) | Partially supported | 3 | |
| Otterbein, Keith F. | 1965 | "It is only in societies with a high level of political integration that there are officials who have the power to intervene [to prevent feuding when the society is threatened by war]" (1478) | Supported | 3 | |
| Peregrine, Peter N. | 2007 | Social stratification, technological specialization, and urbanization will be postively associated with political integration (81). | Supported | 4 | |
| Winkelman, Michael James | 1990 | The presence of shamans will be positively associated with nomadic residency patterns and negatively associated with political integration beyond the local community (319). | Supported | 3 | |
| Winkelman, Michael James | 1990 | The presence of healers will be positively associated with political integration beyond the community level (328). | Supported | 2 | |
| Winkelman, Michael James | 1990 | The presence of mediums will be positively associated with political integration beyond the community level (329). | Supported | 2 | |
| Winkelman, Michael James | 1990 | The presence of priests will be positively associated with political integration and the presence of agriculture (345). | Supported | 3 | |
| Human Relations Area Files | 1961 | Number and intensity of animal food taboos decrease with political and economic complexity. | UNKNOWN | 3 | |
| Winkelman, Michael James | 1986 | "All of the Shamans were in nomadic or seminomadic societies, which generally has hunting and gathering economies" (36)..."However, all of the Shaman/Healers were found in societies with agriculture, and almost all of the Healers were found in societies with political integration beyond the local level" (36) | Supported | 5 | |
| Winkelman, Michael James | 1986 | "Mediums occurred in societies with agricultural or pastoral economies, and, with one exception, they occurred only in societies with political integration beyond the local level" (36) | Supported | 3 | |
| Winkelman, Michael James | 1986 | Political integration and the presence of classes are correlated with the presence of Malevolent Practitioners | Supported | 3 | |
| Winkelman, Michael James | 1986 | "Priest practitioners were present only in sedentary societies with a major reliance upon agriculture or pastoralism"(37) | Supported | 4 | |
| Chick, Garry | 1998 | Games of strategy will be related to social complexity (195). | Supported | 3 | |
| Ball, Donald W. | 1972 | Social organization variables will be positively related to game complexity (287). | Supported | 4 | |
| Koch, Klaus-Friedrich | 1976 | Dyadic modes of conflict management will be dominant in communities with a low level of political integration, while triadic modes of conflict management will be dominany in communities with a high level of political integration (447). | Supported | 2 | |
| Koch, Klaus-Friedrich | 1976 | A community's mode of production will determine its level of political integration (448). | Supported | 2 | |
| Cashdan, Elizabeth | 2013 | Socialization for collectivist values will be associated with pathogen prevalence, population density, and levels of political integration (68). | Supported | 4 | |
| Rohner, Ronald P. | 1975 | ". . . levels of cultural development . . . are also related to parental rejection-acceptance. The more complex a social system is, the more likely children are to be rejected" (117) | Supported | 4 | |
| Wright, Quincy | 1942 | "Sociologically primitive peoples may be classified into those who are integrated in primary (clan), secondary (village), tertiary (tribe) and quaternary (tribal federations or states) groups. The first are the least and the latter are the most warlike" (66) | Supported | 2 | |
| Murdock, George Peter | 1964 | "Logically, we might expect to find restrictive norms of premarital sex behavior with political complexity and permissive norms with simple political systems" (405) | Supported | 2 | |
| Schlegel, Alice | 1991 | Peer group size will be positively associated with level of political integration (77). | Supported | 2 | |
| Schlegel, Alice | 1991 | Public recognition of boys' peer groups will be positively associated with level of political integration (79). | Supported | 2 | |
| LeVine, Robert A. | 1960 | "[There is] a highly significant degree of association between supra-community political integration and the presence of a class structure . . ." (294) | Supported | 2 | |
| Harner, Michael J. | 1970 | "For societies practicing agriculture, inter- and intra-group competition for [increasingly scarce subsistence] . . . resources is seen as leading to the evolution of more competitively successful cooperative units in descent (in classless societies) and in political structure, and to the evolution of class stratification" (67) | Supported | 4 | |
| Roberts, John M. | 1971 | "Riddles appear to be associated with high political integration" (515) | Supported | 2 | |
| Peregrine, Peter N. | 2007 | Political integration in ethnographically-described societies is positively associated with complexity of ceramic art design and ceramic art styles (225) | Partially supported | 3 | |
| Peregrine, Peter N. | 2007 | Political integration in archaeologically-described societies is positively associated with complexity of ceramic art design and ceramic art styles (226) | Supported | 2 | |
| Winkelman, Michael James | 1986 | Possession trance beliefs in the context of religious practitioner training will be associated with higher social complexity | Supported | 5 | |
| Winkelman, Michael James | 1986 | "both psychological variables related to temporal lobe dysinhibition and social variables related to political integration have a strong predictive value in explaining the incidence of possession trance states (198)" | Supported | 4 | |
| Hrnčíř, Václav | 2017 | Slavery will be correlated with many social features (see variable list) | Supported | 10 | |
| Hrnčíř, Václav | 2017 | There will be a relationship between slavery and social complexity | Supported | 13 | |
| Kradin, Nikolay N. | 2013 | Political integration will be correlated with social stratification. | Supported | 2 | |
| Kradin, Nikolay N. | 2013 | Writing will be correlated with political integration. | Supported | 2 | |
| Ahmed, Ali T. | 2020 | Higher caloric potential is associated with higher levels of political integration. | Marginally Supported | 2 | |
| Winkelman, Michael J. | 2022 | Political integration will predict magico-religious practitioner type. | Supported | 2 | |
| Ember, Carol R. | 2023 | Egalitarian societies will have higher levels of synchrony of dress. | Partially supported | 5 | |