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Meccanismi causali e cambiamento sociale

Un framework interdisciplinare
  • Nicolò Bellanca,

This book offers an interdisciplinary framework for explaining social change through sufficient causes and causal mechanisms. Against the tendency to multiply variables and correlations, it identifies the processes that connect initial conditions to observable outcomes. It presents 48 mechanisms, from individual action to institutions, and organizes them into conceptual frameworks for building middle-range theories of power, community, capitalism and institutional transformation.

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  • causal mechanisms,
  • social change,
  • sufficient causes,
  • institutional change,
  • political economy,
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Nicolò Bellanca

University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-3809-3455

Nicolò Bellanca is associate professor of applied economics at the University of Florence. His research spans political economy, institutional change, social theory and democratic governance.

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979-12-215-1121-5

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979-12-215-1122-2

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Studi e saggi

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2704-6478

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2704-5919

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