Innovation in claim-making is bounded by established repertoire limits

Evidence

Repertoires vary from place to place, time to time, and pair to pair. But on the whole, when people make collective claims they innovate within limits set by the repertoire already established for their place, time, and pair. Thus social-movement activists in today’s European cities adopt some mixture of public meetings, press statements, demonstrations, and petitions, but stay away from suicide-bombing, hostage-taking, and self-immolation. Their repertoire draws on a long history of previous struggles (Tilly 2004a). — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 235

Categorization

• XREF: The constraint that activists stick to petitions/demonstrations rather than violence is precisely the ‘institutional absorption’ channeling the reader wants to test — does democratic institutionalization defuse radical forms? — connects to: Regimes shape claim-making repertoires through control, constitution of claimants, and issue streams — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1168; Effective claim-making innovates at the edges of familiar performance scripts — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 265; Repertoire strength depends on the balance between familiar preference and innovation capacity — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 260 (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 235

Broader Connections

• Effective claim-making innovates at the edges of familiar performance scripts #expands (0.90) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 265
• Claim-making reciprocally alters the regime that constrains it in the medium run #complicates (0.82) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1306
• Political-opportunity structures constrain ordinary people’s collective claim-making #exemplifies (0.80) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 115
• Repertoire strength depends on the balance between familiar preference and innovation capacity #expands (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 260