Regime type shapes who confronts protesters and how claims get made

Evidence

By the standards set forth in chapter 3, the Annual Register’s descriptions of contentious interactions lack essential detail. “Riot” and “violence” stigmatize those interactions but fail to say how they occurred. Even this terse account, however, indicates that in the American regime specialized police rather than the national military or government-backed death squads regularly confront, contain, or even protect protesters; that ethnic and racial divisions have political edges; and that street demonstrations or marches recur as ways of making identity, program, and standing claims. These features bring out resemblances between U.S. contention and that of other Western-style democracies such as Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Australia. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 380

Categorization

• XREF: This operationalizes the regime-democracy matrix from figure 2.2 and earlier chapters, grounded in observable contention features rather than theory. — connects to: Similarities in protest tactics across countries can mask crucially different local conditions — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 46; Demonstrations evolved into highly flexible claim-making by massing supporters at power sites — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1190; Regime surveys center on discontinuous public collective claim-making between distinct political actors — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 306 (+8 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 380

Broader Connections

• Regimes shape claim-making repertoires through control, constitution of claimants, and issue streams #expands (0.92) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1168
• Regime type determines the forms and intensity of collective violence #corroborates (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 689
• Regime form shapes which collective actors can act on their interests #corroborates (0.84) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 84
• Regime structure determines revolutionary situation frequency and character #corroborates (0.82) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1045
• Regime coercion weakly deters protest while dissident coercive capacity strongly enables rebellion #qualifies (0.80)
• A regime’s past path in capacity-democracy space shapes its contention practices. #expands (0.80) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 145
• Legalizing demonstrations made claim-making less violent but more frequent #exemplifies (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1326
• Regime-analysis must specify how institutionalized rights interact with rightful and defiant contention #expands (0.75) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 104