Civil war and terror are causally heterogeneous, not unitary phenomena

Evidence

Both civil war and terror include collective violence at several different locations within the coordination-salience space. Both typically range among coordinated destruction, broken negotiations, scattered attacks, and opportunism. The mix of those types provides much of the texture of particular episodes. Two conclusions follow immediately. First, because what happens within civil war and terror is causally heterogeneous, no single set of conditions or processes should suffice to explain all cases of either one. Second, both their frequency and their character vary significantly across different sorts of regimes. (In chapter 7, I reiterate both points in the case of revolutions.) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 789

Categorization

• XREF: This methodological point — rejecting single-cause explanation of ‘terror’ or ‘civil war’ as category — bears directly on the reader’s project of testing whether Tilly’s framework can be extended asymmetrically; heterogeneity means no single regime-type story should cover all cases. — connects to: Civil war and terror are causally heterogeneous across regimes, defying single theories — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 789; Terrorism’s causal effects resist separation from other social phenomena — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4085; Ethnic and religious fragmentation do not predict civil war onset — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 809 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 789

Broader Connections

• Civil war and terror are causally heterogeneous across regimes, defying single theories #expands (0.95) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 789
• Terrorist violence within a single conflict can vary in coordination level #exemplifies (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 826
• Revolutionary situations and civil wars overlap but measure distinct phenomena #qualifies (0.80) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 989
• Ethnic and religious fragmentation do not predict civil war onset #exemplifies (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 809
• Terrorism’s causal effects resist separation from other social phenomena #expands (0.72) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4085