Declining capacity widens tolerated contention by forcing repressive triage.

Evidence

After about 1970, the combination of further de-democratization and declining governmental capacity expanded the range of effectively tolerated performances—tolerated simply because the government was concentrating its repression elsewhere—while increasing the overlap between contention and tolerated performances. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 638

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 638
• XREF: connects to: Declining state capacity expands tolerated contention through repressive neglect

Broader Connections

• Declining state capacity expands tolerated contention through repressive neglect #corroborates (0.92)