Democratic regimes channel contentious claims into prescribed institutional forms.

Evidence

Second, democratic regimes draw contentious claim-making toward their prescribed and tolerated forms of expression because access to power and recognition regularly pass through effective uses of those forms; thus electoral campaigns and sessions of legislative assemblies become foci of claim-making, even on the part of contenders that currently exercise little or no power. High-capacity, nondemocratic regimes, in contrast, typically exclude contentious issues and actors from prescribed and tolerated forms of claim-making, with the consequence that dissidents make their claims either by covert use of tolerated performances such as public ceremonies or by deliberate adoption of forbidden performances such as armed attacks. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 447

Categorization

• XREF: Central to the reader’s hypothesis: democracies filter subordinate-group claims into ‘legitimate’ channels (electoral, legislative), which is exactly the absorption/channeling asymmetry the reader is testing. Tilly names the mechanism: access to power passes through these forms. — connects to: Regime capacity and democracy jointly shape prevailing contentious repertoires. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 533; Democratic high-capacity regimes exhibit distinctive patterned contention. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 378; Democracy channels contention into bargaining over claim-making boundaries — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1311 (+7 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 447

Broader Connections

• Democracy channels contention into bargaining over claim-making boundaries #expands (0.93) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1311
• Democratic institutions channel contention into electoral forms while autocracies push it underground #expands (0.90)
• Regimes shape claim-making repertoires through control, constitution of claimants, and issue streams #expands (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1168
• Democratic high-capacity regimes exhibit distinctive patterned contention. #exemplifies (0.82) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 378
• Regime capacity and democracy jointly shape prevailing contentious repertoires. #qualifies (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 533
• Democratic states govern through a permanent state of exception rather than true crisis #complicates (0.74) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 363