Communal risings alone never succeeded against states without elite allies

Evidence

Communal coalitions also built on territorial bases, but at a smaller scale. … From the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, as warmaking states demanded increased taxes and manpower from local communities, sometimes those communities joined in massive risings against tax collectors and military recruiters. Religious communities, including those that converted to Protestantism, similarly resisted rapidly increasing top-down control, not to mention subjection to alien religious control. Here the more directly connected actors could build resistance on well-established local ties and daily interaction routines. Pitted against the vastly greater military power of states, communal coalitions never achieved their aims unless they connected with patron-client, national, or dynastic coalitions. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1005

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s hypothesis about institutional absorption defusing subordinate-group politicization — here Tilly shows local communal contention is structurally impotent without connection to higher-order coalitions, which is the kind of asymmetry-relevant channeling his framework describes. — connects to: Individual defensive resistance without shared institutions collapses into near-permanent civil war. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 460; Popular uprisings succeed only when elite allies coordinate with mass discontent
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1005

Broader Connections

• Popular uprisings succeed only when elite allies coordinate with mass discontent #corroborates (0.95)
• Individual defensive resistance without shared institutions collapses into near-permanent civil war. #corroborates (0.75) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 460