Regimes sort contention into prescribed, tolerated, and forbidden performances

Evidence

The regime itself sorts performances into prescribed, tolerated, and forbidden, dispensing threats and penalties to claimants who move onto forbidden ground. The changing interaction of these three elements—everyday social organization, cumulative experience with contention, and regime intervention—produces incremental alterations in contentious performances. At any given moment, however, that interaction promotes clustering of claim-making in a limited number of recognizable performances, a repertoire. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 272

Categorization

• XREF: The prescribed/tolerated/forbidden triad could scaffold the reader’s test: whether institutional constitutional rights regimes (absorption) shift what is prescribed vs. tolerated differently for subordinate groups than for dominant groups defending their standing. — connects to: Shifting opportunities drive power-holders rigid and challengers flexible — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 279; Regime actors divide into members, challengers, and outsiders by access.; A regime’s past path in capacity-democracy space shapes its contention practices. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 145 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Regimes shape political opportunity structure through toleration and forbidding choices #expands (0.90) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 445
• Laws of contention vary by regime type and era. #expands (0.88) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 365
• A system tolerates and rewards dissent that stays within its boundaries #exemplifies (0.82) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 340