Tell us about a subject you enjoy studying
Today I am going to talk to you about a subject that I enjoy in college. I studied this subject in the first academic semester and is called path dependency. Path dependency is a phenomenon that considers history as an important factor, in this way, what has occurred in the past persists because of resistance to change. At first, when the subject was discussed, I related it to short phrases such as "the past matters" or "the past prevails", but when studying about the subject I realized that there was a background and a more interesting explanation behind the simple path of dependence. On the subject, I learned that this phenomenon explains the trend that shapes public policies. In this way, the surge of new institutionalism tends to define path dependence as a situation where the policy choice is constrained or shaped by institutional paths that result from choices made in the past. Finally, it is worth mentioning that I enjoy studying this phenomenon, because I ...