Regime change and contentious politics mutually shape one another

Evidence

Over the next fifteen years, a spectacular set of regime changes occurred in Peru. The country’s struggles from 1989 to 2003 illustrate the questions that are the focus of this book: how do diverse forms of political contention—revolutions, strikes, wars, social movements, coups d’état, and others—interact with shifts from one kind of regime to another? To what extent, and how, do alterations of contentious politics and transformations of regimes cause one another? Does virulent violence, for example, necessarily accompany rapid regime transitions? — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 38

Categorization

  • QUESTION: The reader’s central question — institutional absorption defusing subordinate politicization — is the kind of asymmetry this interrogative framing invites testing.
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 38
  • XREF: connects to: Regime change and contention mutually shape each other over long periods — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 549; Political contention engages state coercive power and affects regime future — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 132; Regime capacity and democracy jointly shape prevailing contentious repertoires. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 533 (+6 more)

Broader Connections