Contention-driven regime transformation remains an unanswered puzzle

Evidence

The same sorts of causes that produce social movements also produce revolutions and collective violence. This book has concentrated on identifying causes that belong to change and variation in the organization of national regimes. So doing, it has clarified and made more urgent three questions that it nevertheless repeatedly brushed aside: Exactly how does contention itself transform regimes? What causes regimes to vary and change from low capacity to high capacity and back again? What causes democratization and democratization? This book underlines why we need better answers to all three questions. The future of popular politics is at stake. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1344

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• QUESTION: Directly serves the reader’s stated gap: Tilly admits he never answers how contention transforms regimes, and never broaches the asymmetry between subordinate and dominant-group politicization.

Related

• Tilly’s regime-repertoire model remains untested across multiple regimes (similarity 0.87)
• Laws of contention vary by regime type and era. (similarity 0.85)
• Regime structure determines revolutionary situation frequency and character (similarity 0.84)
• A regime consists of repeated strong relations among government and major political actors. (similarity 0.82)
• Claim-making reciprocally alters the regime that constrains it in the medium run (similarity 0.82)
• High capacity and democracy suppress revolutionary situations while medium-capacity regimes favor outcomes (similarity 0.81)
• Repertoire clustering stems from daily organization, contention history, and regime operations (similarity 0.81)
• Increasingly transnational movements have surprisingly left the basic repertoire unchanged (similarity 0.81)
• Democratization always results from and generates extensive contention (similarity 0.80)
• A regime’s past path in capacity-democracy space shapes its contention practices. (similarity 0.80)
• Charles Tilly — Regimes and Repertoires (similarity 0.79)
• High-capacity mobilization hits the regime directly while low-capacity contention rarely does (similarity 0.79)