European regions hosted revolutionary situations nearly a quarter of the time after 1492

Evidence

As a practical matter, the catalog of revolutionary situations included any episode in which some major segment, region, or city within a previously existing state lived for a month or more under the rule of a domestic opponent, or set of opponents, to the previously established ruler. … In the six regions over the five hundred years, the inventory identified 707 region-years in which revolutionary situations occurred, about twentyfour per century in the average region. Roughly translated, major European regions were hosting revolutionary situations in at least one of their regimes almost a quarter of the time during the half-millennium after 1492. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 997

Categorization

• QUESTION: The quarter-of-the-time frequency figure tests whether institutional absorption regimes actually lower revolutionary-situation incidence — relevant to the reader’s hypothesis.
• XREF: connects to: Revolutionary situation frequency declined across Europe despite escalating warfare scale — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1060; Modern European states formed through reform waves rather than revolution; Most European states had adopted dictatorship before World War II without revolutionary upheaval — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 656 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern European states formed through reform waves rather than revolution #complicates (0.80)
• Most European states had adopted dictatorship before World War II without revolutionary upheaval #contradicts (0.78) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 656