Journal Article10.1023/A:1007113830879
Path dependence in historical sociology
TL;DR: In this article, a determiner a quels types d'evenements historiques s'applique l'analyse de path dependence is presented. But this determiner is restricted to two types of evenements: the sequences a auto-renforcement and the sequences reactives.
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Abstract: Cet article cherche a determiner a quels types d'evenements historiques s'applique l'analyse de path dependence. Selon l'A., il s'agit de sequences historiques au sein desquelles des evenements contingents mettent en mouvement des modeles institutionnels ou des chaines d'evenements ayant des proprietes deterministes. L'identification de la path dependence implique a la fois de relier un resultat a une serie d'evenements et de montrer en quoi ces evenements sont eux-memes des occurences contingentes ne pouvant etre expliquees par des conditions historiques prealables. Ces sequences historiques sont generalement de deux types : les sequences a auto-renforcement et les sequences reactives
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