2010
Cairn
Charles Tilly, « Describing, Measuring, and Explaining Conflict », Revue internationale de politique comparée, ID : 10670/1.2acde7...
Compared with the aggregation of rational individual decisions within well-defined external structures, interactive models of social processes provide the basis for better description, measurement, and explanation. When it is applied to the study of political struggle, this approach enables the creation of rigorous descriptions and measurements, and models featuring interactive mechanisms and processes provide distinctive and valuable explanations. Taxonomies of events, ethnographic studies of specific struggles, and close examination of interactions within popular protests illustrate these claims.