Path dependence plus recurrent mechanisms jointly explain contention’s regularities.

Evidence

In all eras, on the other hand, we should find a significant weight of history: the previous trajectory of contention should visibly constrain present possibilities for collective claim-making. Some causal mechanisms, furthermore, should recur in a wide variety of situations, such as the ways that the creation of networks and solidarities in routine social life selectively facilitates the contention of some, but only some, populations that share interests and opportunities. Although such recurrent mechanisms account for profound regularities in contention across history, with them alone we will never be able to account for the issues, actors, situations, and forms of interaction that characterize a given region and era. Like geologists accounting for particular land masses and their transformations, we have no choice but to examine the relevant history. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 366

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 366
• XREF: connects to: Initial conditions shape but do not determine contention outcomes across regimes — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 816; Repertoires of contention are defined by a flexibility continuum from nonexistent to rigid — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 258; Contention-driven regime transformation remains an unanswered puzzle (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Critical junctures activate the self-reinforcing processes that create path dependence #expands (0.85) — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence, 117
• Path analysis matters because congealed processes constrain future action #corroborates (0.83) — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence, 51
• Path processes at different levels mutually reinforce each other catalytically #corroborates (0.83) — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence, 127
• Ambiguity and complexity enable path dependence but are not themselves self-reinforcing mechanisms. #qualifies (0.82) — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence, 95
• Tracing event sequences over time is necessary to expose the mechanisms of path dependence. #expands (0.80) — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence, 118
• Small incremental betrayals only matter when repetition accumulates into a changed final state #exemplifies (0.80) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 697
• Contention-driven regime transformation remains an unanswered puzzle #qualifies (0.78)
• Contention forms are regime-bound but also historically embedded #corroborates (0.76) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 231
• Regime-internal relational shifts drive contention against both bottom-up and top-down causality #complicates (0.74) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 659
• Sustained refusal depends on elaborate parallel infrastructures of mutual support #exemplifies (0.74) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 288
• Proving path dependence requires reversing the three-stage model’s logic #qualifies (0.73) — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence, 113
• Organization-level path dependence is triggered by intentional strategic moves, not random small events #complicates (0.72) — Jörg Sydow, Georg Schreyögg, and Jochen Koch, Organizational Path Dependence, 35
• Richness is maintained when disturbance recurs faster than competitive exclusion #expands (0.71) — S. T. A. Pickett and P. S. White, eds., The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and…, 2251