A process of political change may move from one class to another during its course.
Domain: Politics and Purposive Change
Proposition 080 – Class 3: systemic change
Political change may profoundly modify a coherent set of civilisation elements and the institutions connected with them class 3.
Proposition 079 – Class 2: change of civilisation elements
Political change may modify one or more civilisation elements of a circle civilisation without changing the circle civilisation as a whole profoundly class 2.
Proposition 078 – Class 1: change within existing order
Political change may take place within an existing circle civilisation and institutional order without changing relevant elements of either of them class 1.
Proposition 077 – Three classes of political change
Political changes differ in the degree to which they modify existing standards, civilisation elements and institutions; this theory analytically distinguishes three classes.
Proposition 076 – Continuum of political change
The degree to which political change affects a circle civilisation and its institutions forms a continuum.
Proposition 075 – Competing interpretations of outcomes
When competing actors interpret an outcome of purposive action differently, the likelihood that an actor’s explanation will be accepted by that actor’s support base increases with the explanation’s correspondence to its civilisation and its trust in the actor.
Proposition 074 – Legitimation civilises the support base
Acceptance by a support base of the explanation through which an actor legitimates an outcome as achievement of the goal contributes to the further civilising of that support base.
Proposition 073 – Civilisation shapes perceived success
The better an outcome corresponds to the civilisation elements of the person evaluating it, the more likely that outcome is to be accepted as achievement of the goal.
Proposition 072 – Unintended social change
The purposive action of actors may cause social changes that none of them intended or foresaw.