High-capacity mobilization hits the regime directly while low-capacity contention rarely does

Evidence

Second, the scheme describes processes that commonly occur when a high-capacity, nondemocratic regime moves toward democracy. In a highcapacity regime, relatively little political contention occurs without involvement of governmental agents, but by that very token vigorous mobilization against the government produces changes in regime structure—either closing of ranks that reduces political opportunities for challengers or realignments that enhance those opportunities. In low-capacity, nondemocratic regimes, a great deal of contention occurs outside the reach of governmental agents, and consequently has less direct impact on the regime. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 664

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• High capacity and democracy suppress revolutionary situations while medium-capacity regimes favor outcomes (similarity 0.85)
• A regime’s past path in capacity-democracy space shapes its contention practices. (similarity 0.82)
• Democratic institutions channel contention into electoral forms while autocracies push it underground (similarity 0.79)
• Democratization always results from and generates extensive contention (similarity 0.79)
• Contention-driven regime transformation remains an unanswered puzzle (similarity 0.79)
• Democracy plus high capacity generated the social-movement repertoire bundling old performances. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Regime coercion weakly deters protest while dissident coercive capacity strongly enables rebellion #expands (0.78)