Drivers of change in social contracts: Building a conceptual framework

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Figure 1. Three strands of literature building on the term ‘social contract’.

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Figure 2. Different types of changes in social contracts.

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Figure 3. Actors that can initiate the reform of a social contract.

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Figure 4. Possible scenarios of sudden changes in social contracts.

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Figure 5. From old to new path dependencies.

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Loewe, M., Zintl, T., & Houdret, A. (2021). The social contract as a tool of analysis: Introduction to the special issue on “framing the evolution of new social contracts in Middle Eastern and North African countries”. World Development, 145, 104982. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104982

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