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Commitment ties between rulers and ruled substitute for coercion

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aliases@tilly_regimes_2006, loc. 130

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Commitment ties between rulers and ruled substitute for coercion

Evidence

Commitment means relations among social sites (persons, groups, structures, or positions) that promote their taking account of each other. Shared language, for instance, powerfully links social sites without any necessary deployment of coercion or capital. Commitment’s local organization varies as dramatically as do structures of coercion and capital. Commitments can take the form of shared religion or ethnicity, trading ties, work-generated solidarities, communities of taste, and much more. To the extent that commitments of these sorts connect rulers and ruled, they substitute partially for coercion and capital. But commitment can also turn against a government, as in the indigenous highland communities where Peru’s Sendero Luminoso and Túpac Amaru guerrillas recruited extensive followings. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 130

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  • DEFINE: Defines the third resource; key point that commitment is double-edged and can turn against government.
  • QUESTION: Relevant to whether constitutional absorption works by generating commitment that runs both ways, legitimacy that constrains rulers too.
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 130
  • XREF: connects to: True political representation requires organic cohesion between rulers and ruled — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1498; Illegitimate government corrodes trust between ruler and ruled — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1174; Hegemony is rule achieved through consent rather than coercion — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 626 (+1 more)

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