Effective forbidding of violence plus toleration of nonviolent performance reduces violence salience

Evidence

The variable configuration of prescribed, tolerated, and forbidden performances in different sorts of regimes also affects processes 1 to 13 as listed in box 6.1. The tendency of low-capacity, nondemocratic regimes to repress forbidden performances incompletely and unpredictably, for instance, increases the salience of violence in their contentious interactions. Both forbidden performers and violent specialists reach out to damage each other more immediately than under other regimes. Because high-capacity, democratic regimes, in contrast, combine effective means of forbidding violent performances with toleration of extensive nonviolent performances, violence becomes much less salient in those regimes. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 759

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: States in all regime types override civil liberties when they face perceived survival threats.; Legalizing demonstrations made claim-making less violent but more frequent — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1326; Stoner non-aggression masks defended passive aggression against any challenge — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2378