Regimes shape political opportunity structure through toleration and forbidding choices

Evidence

If, for example, the only forms of claim-making that your regime tolerates are the ones that come easily to existing power-holders, and the ones you forbid belong especially to existing challengers, you are restricting POS for challengers actual and potential. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 445

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Regimes sort contention into prescribed, tolerated, and forbidden performances — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 272; Regime trajectory changes produce shifts in challengers’ political opportunity structure — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 629; Regimes vary along inclusiveness and contestation as separate dimensions — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 96 (+2 more)