Democracies install baseline rights even where capacity is low and violence high

Evidence

On the democratic side, the choice is not so stark. Low-capacity, democratic regimes gather more than their share of collective violence, and often harbor zones of extensive lawlessness. But at their centers they install some minimum of political rights and civil liberties. Highcapacity, democracies endure relatively little collective violence in their domestic politics, even if they sometimes make up for it by their violence in external wars. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1303

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Democratic institutions channel contention into electoral forms while autocracies push it underground; Democracy minimally requires popular authorization of laws and shared power — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 362; Democratic leaders accept constitutional limits and autonomous state organs — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 108 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Democratic leaders accept constitutional limits and autonomous state organs #corroborates (0.80) — Abdi Ismail Samatar, Africa’s First Democrats, 108
• Democracy minimally requires popular authorization of laws and shared power #complicates (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 362