Regime capacity shapes how contention is channeled between prescribed, tolerated, and forbidden performances

Evidence

Low-Capacity Nondemocratic: few prescribed performances; medium range of tolerated performances; much of contention via forbidden performances; low involvement of government agents in contention; high levels of violence in contentious interactions. … High-Capacity Nondemocratic: many prescribed performances; narrow range of tolerated performances; almost all contention by means of forbidden performances; high involvement of government agents in contention (often as principals); medium levels of violence in contentious interactions. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 484

Categorization

• QUESTION: Reader wants to know the exact repertoire predictions per cell of the capacity/democracy matrix — these are the regime-cell definitions, though the passage is truncated mid-cell.
• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s hypothesis: high-capacity nondenocracies route almost all contention into forbidden performances with the government as principal — relevant to whether dominant-group ‘rights defense’ can be framed as prescribed performance. — connects to: No coherent theory links regime type to forms of contention — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 42; Initial conditions shape but do not determine contention outcomes across regimes — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 816; Contention forms are regime-bound but also historically embedded — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 231 (+7 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 484

Broader Connections

• Regimes sort contention into prescribed, tolerated, and forbidden performances #expands (0.95) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 272
• Semi-democratic medium-capacity regimes occupy an intermediate contention position #exemplifies (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 503
• Higher regime capacity with some democratic freedoms produces intermediate contention #exemplifies (0.82) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 503
• High-capacity mobilization hits the regime directly while low-capacity contention rarely does #expands (0.80)
• Contention forms are regime-bound but also historically embedded #expands (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 231
• Initial conditions shape but do not determine contention outcomes across regimes #expands (0.72) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 816