{"tema_id":"171","string":"Social mechanisms","created":"2023-07-20 17:13:57","code":"","modified":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","notes":[{"@type":"Bibliographic note","@lang":"en-EN","@value":"G. Capano, M. Howlett, M. Ramesh, and A. Virani, Making Policies Work. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019. doi: 10.4337\/9781788118194. "},{"@type":"Definition note","@lang":"en-EN","@value":"Unobserved analytical constructs that provide hypothetical links between observable events: \u2018a social mechanism is a plausible hypothesis, or set of plausible hypotheses, that could be the explanation of some social phenomenon; the explanation begins in terms of interactions between individuals, or between individuals and some social aggregate\u2019 (Schelling, 1998, p. 32) "}]}