A semi-revolutionary juncture can yield negotiated compromise rather than overthrow
Evidence
Yet the ANC also worked to avoid complete polarization. It accepted “proportional representation for elections, job security for white civil servants, and an amnesty for security forces that admitted to crimes under the old regime” … Thus a semi-revolutionary situation yielded to a remarkable negotiated compromise. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 587
Categorization
- XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s asymmetry thesis — this is institutional absorption defusing revolutionary politicization via amnesty and job security guarantees. — connects to: Partial concessions from negotiated protest deals split reformist from radical left factions — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 145; A mass uprising can deliver less than a true revolution — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 310; Reform-minded dissent within a system strengthens rather than threatens it (+5 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 587
Broader Connections
- Negotiation with opponents during a regime’s crisis shapes post-regime party alignment
#expands(0.80) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 171 - Antibase movements can win concessions even when they lose the main fight
#exemplifies(0.78) — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 939 - Reform-minded dissent within a system strengthens rather than threatens it
#qualifies(0.75) - A revolutionary situation’s outcome depends on prevailing regimes and repertoires.
#expands(0.75) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1088 - Discourse and bargaining are distinct legitimate modes of political agreement
#expands(0.72) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 59