Claim-making reciprocally alters the regime that constrains it in the medium run

Evidence

The causal connections, nevertheless, remain harder to observe. With extensive illustrations but nothing like definitive proof, this book has argued that a regime’s political history generates both a claim-making repertoire and a political opportunity structure. It has gone on to claim that, in the short run, the repertoire and opportunity structure interact to constrain the frequency, location, and character of collective claims. But in the medium run, claim-making alters the regime. It does so by shaping arrays of effective political actors, political alliances, public programs, governmental personnel, and even forms of government. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1306

Categorization

• QUESTION: Tilly concedes his key causal chain (regime generates repertoire/POS; repertoire alters regime) is illustrated but not proven — leaving the door open for the reader’s asymmetry test.
• XREF: connects to: A regime consists of repeated strong relations among government and major political actors.; Political actors form through regimes rather than preceding them. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 576; Regime-internal relational shifts drive contention against both bottom-up and top-down causality — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 659 (+2 more)