Can Path Dependence Explain Institutional Change? Two Approaches Applied to Welfare State Reform

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Towards an Evolutionary Perspective on Regional Resilience (2015, background): “On the contrary, EBBINGHAUS (2009) defines path departure as a partial renewal of current institutions that does not challenge or redirect its underlying core principles.”
Overcoming path dependency: path generation in open systems (2007, background): “Ebbinghaus (2005) proposes that different sources of stability will be sensitive to different pressures for change.”
The Technological Resilience of U.S. Cities (2014, background): “Second, there is a tendency in the literature to equate regional resilience with the avoidance of path dependence, as if path dependency causes only problems of adjustment, and as if regions need to escape from their historical legacy to develop new growth paths (Ebbinghaus 2009; Magnusson and Ottos”
Explaining fertility: The potential for integrative approaches (2015, unknown): “According to Ebbinghaus (2005), a “trodden trail” due to strong path dependence may end at a “critical juncture” with “branching pathways”.”
The life course cube: A tool for studying lives. (2019, methodology): “Here, for example, Ebbinghaus (2009) uses the metaphor of path dependency as a “road juncture” at which the individual person takes one or the other of multiple available routes in order to proceed, after which it may be difficult or impossible to backtrack.”