مفهوم التبعية للمسلك وحالة الاصلاحات بالجزائر

In Algeria, the sixties and seventies of the last century were the stage of building a modern national state, during which Algeria took options and principles to build its economy and its administrative and political institutions, and took a certain approach in implementing its public policies. Then came the period of continuous reforms from the late eighties until today. In political science, the nineties were marked by the emergence of an intellectual trend called the New Institutional Theory and the development of a trend called the New Historical Institutionalism that focused on the idea of ​​“national paths” in the historical development of nations, and on the concept of subordination to behavior. This concept gives great importance and an extra role to the effects of beginnings and origins in later developments, and shows the mechanisms of accumulation and sedimentation caused by first choices and previous public policies and how they turn into restrictions that support continuity and prevent change. The subject of this article is to present this concept and explain the processes that constitute it and the mechanisms involved in it, then consider the possibility of applying it to the Algerian case by reading the reforms implemented in it based on its theoretical statements