Political-opportunity structures constrain ordinary people’s collective claim-making

Evidence

As links between regimes and contention, we will discover several partly independent clusters of causes, especially structures for political opportunity and contentious repertoires. From the top down, governmental policies and relations among established political actors constitute a political-opportunity structure that limits the chances for ordinary people to make collective claims either on governments or on other actors. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 115

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is the load-bearing concept for the reader’s asymmetry test: if opportunity structures ‘limit the chances’ of ordinary people asymmetrically, Tilly stops at the limitation without asking whether constitutional absorption defuses subordinates differently than it legitimates dominant politicization.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 115
• XREF: connects to: Regimes shape claim-making repertoires through control, constitution of claimants, and issue streams — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1168; Demonstrations evolved into highly flexible claim-making by massing supporters at power sites — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1190; Contentious politics is collective claim-making for power and advantage — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 114 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Contentious politics is collective claim-making for power and advantage #expands (0.92) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 114
• Sharing feelings of misery and attributing them to impersonal structures builds collective political subjectivity #expands (0.82) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1885
• Power cannot self-realize but depends on societal-structural conditions for legitimacy #expands (0.79)