A regime’s prior trajectory shapes its present repertoires

Evidence

Path-dependency: strong influence of a regime’s previous trajectory within the same space on the concrete means by which rulers and citizens engage in contentious politics—for example, engagement of previously existing forms of religious, civic, and kinship organization in new varieties of struggle. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 683

Categorization

• DEFINE: States path-dependency as a named regularity within the capacity-democracy space — a needed definition for the reader’s framework-extension test.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 683
• XREF: connects to: Regime-internal shifts, not challenger agency or external pressure, initiate repertoire change — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 657; Tilly’s regime-contention model generalizes across states via adjusted mapping. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 663; Regime-specific histories shape the repertoires available to social movements. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1172 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Regime-specific histories shape the repertoires available to social movements. #corroborates (0.92) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1172
• Prior regime conduct determined whether parties collapsed or negotiated transitions #exemplifies (0.85) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 100
• Repertoire change intertwines regime transformation, internal struggle history, and broader social change #expands (0.75) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 287