Contention’s regularities need historical, not just mechanistic, explanation.

Evidence

Contentious politics does not, however, operate like a hydraulic pump: increase the pressure or reduce the resistance and more water flows. South Africa brings out dramatically the influence of previously existing political institutions on forms and outcomes of contention. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 631 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Laws of contention vary by regime type and era. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 365; Contention is not a hydraulic response to pressure but shaped by prior institutions — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 631; Historical pattern explanations need leveled generality (+4 more)

Related

• Contention is not a hydraulic response to pressure but shaped by prior institutions (similarity 0.91)
• Laws of contention vary by regime type and era. (similarity 0.86)
• Most contention strongly reuses familiar performance forms rather than innovating (similarity 0.82)
• A regime consists of repeated strong relations among government and major political actors. (similarity 0.80)
• Contention-driven regime transformation remains an unanswered puzzle (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Contention is not a hydraulic response to pressure but shaped by prior institutions #expands (0.82) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 631
• Historical pattern explanations need leveled generality #corroborates (0.75)
• Historical conjunctures are overdetermined accumulations of heterogeneous contradictions #expands (0.74)
• Complex historical causes must be decomposed into independently testable problems #qualifies (0.73) — Diego Gambetta, The Sicilian Mafia The Business of…, 193
• Historical law-statements require generalizing away from unique facts #qualifies (0.72)
• Discerning order always persists within otherwise disordered historical periods #qualifies (0.72) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 860