Contentious politics is collective claim-making for power and advantage

Evidence

Forms of politics? The vignettes of Peru that started this chapter gave us glimpses of coups, civil wars, governmental thuggery, electoral competition, and more. Later sections of the book will take us on to a much wider variety of contentious politics. Those forms of politics will have in common that politically relevant actors are making consequential collective claims on other politically relevant actors. Generally speaking, they are struggling for power and advantage. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 114

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 114
• XREF: connects to: Demonstrations evolved into highly flexible claim-making by massing supporters at power sites — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1190; Political-opportunity structures constrain ordinary people’s collective claim-making — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 115; Regime surveys center on discontinuous public collective claim-making between distinct political actors — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 306 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Contentious politics is defined by government involvement in claims among groups #qualifies (0.88) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 135
• Contention is political only when claims are public and governmental #qualifies (0.87) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 131
• Political contention requires public, collective claims implicating a government. #qualifies (0.85)
• Regime surveys center on discontinuous public collective claim-making between distinct political actors #expands (0.80) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 306