Rapid political change and tradition clashes weaken routine-embedded repertoires into innovation

Evidence

In the times and places that have been the subjects of my study, strong repertoires prevailed. Ritual political performances do take place, and take on an air of sedulous rigidity (Kertzer 1988; Muir 1997). But when people intervene in such rituals to make collective claims, they bend them back toward the strong repertoire. Periods of rapid political change and clashes of previously insulated political traditions appear to weaken contentious repertoires, as the ordinary preference for familiar claimmaking routines dissolves in spurts of innovation. Most of the time, however, the forms of this year’s claim-making in a given place greatly resemble the forms of last year’s. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 263

Categorization

• XREF: This bears on the reader’s asymmetry question — whether institutional absorption (a form of rapid change) would likewise weaken repertoire rigidity and channel contention differently for dominant vs subordinate groups. — connects to: Regime change drives repertoire change more than popular consciousness does; Intellectual change proceeds through uneven breaks rather than tradition or rupture — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 180; Fast-moving cultures depend on stable cultural anchors to absorb innovation — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 288 (+7 more)
• QUESTION: If regime change weakens repertoires, does institutional absorption of subordinate claims spur innovation rather than defuse politicization, undercutting the reader’s hypothesis?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 263

Broader Connections

• Repertoire change intertwines regime transformation, internal struggle history, and broader social change #expands (0.86) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 287
• Regime change drives repertoire change more than popular consciousness does #expands (0.85)
• Habit cannot explain contention’s pattern of unceasing small-scale innovation #corroborates (0.84) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 264
• Regime and repertoire organization shapes which revolutionary shifts occur. #expands (0.82) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 995
• Fast-moving cultures depend on stable cultural anchors to absorb innovation #complicates (0.80) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 288
• Regime-internal shifts, not challenger agency or external pressure, initiate repertoire change #expands (0.80) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 657
• Intellectual change proceeds through uneven breaks rather than tradition or rupture #corroborates (0.78) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 180
• Repertoire strength depends on the balance between familiar preference and innovation capacity #qualifies (0.76) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 260
• Modernization shifts conduct from tradition to means-ends calculation #corroborates (0.74) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 153