Economic changes affect contention only as filtered through regime change

Evidence

The foundations of repertoire transformation in Great Britain between the 1750s and the 1830s take us back to this book’s main problem: the interplay of changes in regimes and repertoires. Although alterations of economic organization and population distribution figure importantly in the story I have just told, their effects on repertoires filter through regime changes—including the creation, destruction, and reshaping of major political actors. In the story, we witness shifts in relationships among major political actors including government deeply influencing the character of popular contention, but we also see contention itself having profound effects on the regime. Without mass mobilizations of the 1820s and 1830s in the social-movement mode, for example, Britain would not have expanded the franchise, granted voting rights to Catholics and Protestant Dissenters, or abolished slavery in its colonies. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 364

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘economic effects filter through regime changes’ claim is the causal architecture the reader needs to test whether institutional absorption (rights regimes) asymmetrically channels subordinate vs dominant politicization. — connects to: Regime-internal shifts, not challenger agency or external pressure, initiate repertoire change — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 657; Contention-driven regime transformation remains an unanswered puzzle; Contention forms are regime-bound but also historically embedded — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 231 (+4 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: Tilly asserts two-way causation — regime shapes contention AND contention reshapes regime (franchise, Catholic voting rights, slavery abolition won by social movements) — rarely granted such cleanly as here; the feedback loop matters for whether absorption truly defuses or merely transforms.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 364

Broader Connections

• Regime change drives repertoire change more than popular consciousness does #corroborates (0.86)
• Regime capacity shapes how contention is channeled between prescribed, tolerated, and forbidden performances #expands (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 484
• Contention forms are regime-bound but also historically embedded #qualifies (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 231
• Higher regime capacity with some democratic freedoms produces intermediate contention #exemplifies (0.75) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 503
• Economic dominance does not automatically translate into political rule #corroborates (0.74)
• Contention-driven regime transformation remains an unanswered puzzle #complicates (0.72)