Full Idea
Causation can be analyzed in terms of mechanisms because (except for fundamental causal interactions) causally related events will be connected by intervening mechanisms.
Gist of Idea
Since causal events are related by mechanisms, causation can be analysed in that way
Source
Stuart Glennan (Mechanisms [2008], 'causation')
Book Reference
'Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science', ed/tr. Psillos,S/Curd,M [Routledge 2010], p.381
A Reaction
This won't give us the metaphysics of causation (which concerns the fundamentals), but this strikes me as a very coherent and interesting proposal. He mentions electron interaction as non-mechanistic causation.
Related Idea
Idea 17493 Modern mechanism need parts with spatial, temporal and function facts, and diagrams [Glennan]