Regime repression capacity is the most obvious facility enabling political violence

Evidence

The most manifest “facility” for collective political violence is the ability and willingness of regimes to repress, relative to that of dissidents to be destructive. We should, of course, expect the balance of coercion to make a difference both in a contingency-sketch of political violence and in its opposite. For contingency theory, though, the tactical consideration involved is of lesser import: as stated earlier, very angry men are not likely to act coolly, even in the face of what Tilly calls “threat.” For CA theories, per contra, little would seem more important. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4326