Contentious politics is defined by government involvement in claims among groups

Evidence

Contentious politics occurs, then, when connected clusters of persons make consequential claims on other clusters of persons or on major political actors, just so long as at least one government is a claimant, an object of claims, or a third party to the claims. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 135

Categorization

• DEFINE: Precision point for extending Tilly’s framework: he defines contentious politics by government participation, so a rights-regime test would need to ask whether constitutional courts count as ‘government’ claimants.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 135
• XREF: connects to: Contentious politics is collective claim-making for power and advantage — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 114; Contention is political only when claims are public and governmental — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 131; Political contention requires public, collective claims implicating a government. (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Political contention requires public, collective claims implicating a government. #expands (0.88)
• Regime surveys center on discontinuous public collective claim-making between distinct political actors #expands (0.86) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 306
• Contentious gatherings are defined as public, collective claim-making events involving ten or more people #expands (0.82) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 309
• People define what counts as political differently across contexts and interactions #complicates (0.76) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 145
• Democratic regimes channel contentious claims into prescribed institutional forms. #expands (0.74) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 447