Extra-parliamentary opposition politics challenge the rules of the game, not the allocation of goods.
Evidence
The regulated political conflict between the institutionalized parties of “Right” and “Left” (whether Conservative/Labour, Christian Democrat/Social Democrat, or Republican/Democrat) has been challenged and “transcended” by the emergence of extra-parliamentary oppositional politics. Such groupings challenge, not the allocation of “goods” (economic, social, moral) within the system, but the “rules of the game” itself. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 854
Categorization
- DEFINE: Distinguishes challenges to game rules from contests over distribution of goods — a useful conceptual distinction for understanding the era’s political realignment.
- XREF: Connects to Hall’s broader concept of politics of the authentic and to Gramscian notions of ‘war of position’ against hegemonic consensus. — connects to: Dahl’s contestation concerns institutionalized opposition rights, not actual contention patterns. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 103; Limits on political confrontation are political choices, not moral or rational requirements — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 428; Opposition can contest means without rejecting a regime’s ends (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Dahl’s contestation concerns institutionalized opposition rights, not actual contention patterns. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 103; Limits on political confrontation are political choices, not moral or rational requirements — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 428; Opposition can contest means without rejecting a regime’s ends (+1 more)