High-capacity semi-democratic regimes generated the social-movement repertoire that channeled revolutionary contention

Evidence

Changing repertoires also exerted some independent influence on the prospects, conditions, processes, and impacts of revolutionary outcomes in Europe. As chapter 8 shows in much greater detail, the emergence of partially democratic, high-capacity regimes promoted the formation of a distinctive social-movement repertoire. That repertoire included a package of claim-making performances all of which had precedents, but none of which had ever previously been widely available in one another’s company: formation of special-purpose associations and named public coalitions; petition drives; public meetings, rallies, demonstrations, strikes, public statements; and lobbying. … Once in place, those performances facilitated creation of temporary political actors across the boundaries of class, gender, ethnicity, and region; promoted coordination of simultaneous action spanning whole regimes; and connected national mobilizations with local bases of recruitment and support. In high-capacity, semi-democratic regimes such as those of France, the repertoire became the means by which nineteenthand twentieth-century revolutionaries pressed the bulk of their claims. Social-movement revolutionaries sometimes even won. For all their later reversals, French revolutions of 1830, 1848, and 1870 became European-wide models for elite-led but popularly based transfers of national power. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1071

Categorization

• XREF: Directly useful for the reader’s hypothesis: the social-movement repertoire is the institutional-absorption mechanism — high-capacity semi-democratic states channel contention into the repertoire rather than into insurrection, while autocratic regimes see correspondingly less repertoire use. — connects to: High-capacity regimes route contention through government, making mobilization affect regime structure. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 664; Proximity to democratic regimes spreads social-movement forms into nondemocratic settings — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1179; Regime-specific histories shape the repertoires available to social movements. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1172 (+4 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: This connects repertoire form to regime type causally, giving the framework the reader needs to test their own asymmetry about who gets absorbed versus who gets legitimated.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1071

Broader Connections

• Democracy plus high capacity generated the social-movement repertoire bundling old performances. #qualifies (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1071
• Regime-specific histories shape the repertoires available to social movements. #expands (0.82) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1172
• Democratic high-capacity regimes exhibit distinctive patterned contention. #qualifies (0.80) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 378
• Proximity to democratic regimes spreads social-movement forms into nondemocratic settings #expands (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1179
• Regime and repertoire organization shapes which revolutionary shifts occur. #corroborates (0.76) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 995
• Semi-democratic medium-capacity regimes occupy an intermediate contention position #complicates (0.75) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 503