Higher regime capacity with some democratic freedoms produces intermediate contention

Evidence

Compare with Uganda, Peru’s government exercises substantially higher capacity as its regime maintains at least some democratic freedoms. We might therefore expect its contentious politics to occupy an intermediate position: some prescribed performances; a medium range of tolerated performances; much contention by means of forbidden performances; higher involvement of government agents in contention (often as principals); and medium levels of violence in contentious interactions. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 503

Categorization

• DEFINE: This operationalizes what an intermediate regime position looks like in terms of prescribed/tolerated/forbidden performances — useful for testing the reader’s asymmetry hypothesis.
• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s project of testing whether institutional absorption asymmetrically defuses subordinate vs. legitimated dominant politicization across regime types. — connects to: Low-capacity nondemocratic regimes tolerate wide contentious claim-making. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 448; Regime capacity shapes how contention is channeled between prescribed, tolerated, and forbidden performances — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 484; A regime’s past path in capacity-democracy space shapes its contention practices. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 145 (+21 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 503

Broader Connections

• Semi-democratic medium-capacity regimes occupy an intermediate contention position #corroborates (1.00) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 503
• Regime capacity and democracy jointly shape prevailing contentious repertoires. #expands (0.92) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 533
• High capacity and democracy suppress revolutionary situations while medium-capacity regimes favor outcomes #expands (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 979
• A regime’s past path in capacity-democracy space shapes its contention practices. #expands (0.82) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 145
• Democratic high-capacity regimes exhibit distinctive patterned contention. #qualifies (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 378
• Regime capacity and democracy jointly shape the violence level of domestic contention #expands (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 898
• High-capacity regimes route contention through government, making mobilization affect regime structure. #qualifies (0.75) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 664
• Contention forms are regime-bound but also historically embedded #qualifies (0.74) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 231
• High-capacity mobilization hits the regime directly while low-capacity contention rarely does #qualifies (0.73)