Demonstrations detached from social movements and diffused into nondemocratic regimes

Evidence

Although demonstrations have played significant parts in social movements from early in the nineteenth century, during the later twentieth century they began to detach from full-fledged social movements in a spectacular series of mobilizations within and against high-capacity, nondemocratic regimes. The highly visible social-movement mobilizations of 1968 provided images and models that spread throughout the world (Horn and Kenney 2004; Suri 2003). Having seen demonstrations in the media or having participated in them while abroad, activists—especially students—well outside of established democracies began assembling to offer WUNC displays in symbolically important locations. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1232

Categorization

• QUESTION: The reader’s central tension with Tilly can be tested here: within autocratic high-capacity regimes, whose politicization does the borrowed demonstration form legitimate — the challenger’s or the regime’s counter-demonstrators replying in kind?
• XREF: connects to: Transnational antiglobalization activism extends a two-century-old social-movement form — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1124; Legalizing demonstrations made claim-making less violent but more frequent — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1326; The demonstration form is spreading to authoritarian regimes while core repertoire stays static (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• The demonstration form is spreading to authoritarian regimes while core repertoire stays static #corroborates (0.92)
• Legalizing demonstrations made claim-making less violent but more frequent #expands (0.75) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1326