Les voies incertaines de la transitologie

Choix Stratégiques, Séquences Historiques, Bifurcations Et Processus De Path Dependence

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4470686
AutoresMichel Dobry (autor correspondente)
Ano2000
Volume50
Fascículo4
Páginas585-614
Data de publicação2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoRevue française de science politique (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0035-2950 • E-ISSN: 1950-6686
EditoraPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/rfsp.2000.395499
OpenAlexW2072240178
IdiomaFR
Citações recebidas65
Referências citadas2

Uncertain paths of transitology : strategic choices, historical sequences, bifurcations and path dependence processes. The article examines the problems that the analysis of processes of transition towards demo­cracy meets, from the point of vue of the transformations in this field of research since the 1989 political upheavals in Eastern Europe, in particular with the self-assertion, next to the strategic approach of classic " transitology ", of an approach that was, at least in this area, defined in opposition to it, that of path dependence. The article attempts to identify the way in which the various transitological approaches define the enigmas to be solved, the specificity of their research objects and their explanatory principles. That is where it is possible to locate, in spite of the real differences that separate these approaches, the main sources of the obstacles and difficulties that they come across, particularly concerning : the relations between the historical paths of transitions and the results these paths are supposed to lead to ; the weight of determi­nation of the past, and the way in which this past is supposed to " count " ; the " bifurcations " in the trajectories of the transitions, and the critical junctures, often confused with " big " events or with " crises " ; the temptation of methodological exceptionalism, i.e. the difficulty the transitological approaches have in conceiving of the diversity of the conjunctures which make up transitions ; lastly, what a consolidated democratic system and what the process of consolidation, which is supposed to lead to this state, are made up of, as well as the place given to uncertainty as a definitional feature of democracy

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