Repertoire type shapes how revolutionary processes unfold even though neither type is inherently revolutionary

Evidence

Repertoires also shape revolutions. Chapter 3 laid out a distinction between two broad types of repertoires: parochial, particular, and bifurcated on one side; cosmopolitan, modular, and autonomous on the other. At that point, I insisted that neither type of repertoire was more “revolutionary” than the other. The rest of this chapter amply substantiates that claim. But the availability of one sort of repertoire or the other strongly affects how revolutionary processes occur. … Parochial, particular, and bifurcated repertoires embed political actors, identities, and interactions in daily local routines. When everyday resistance to demands of governmental agents cascades across whole populations, for example, it typically does so through activation of previously existing ties in parochial and particular performances such as attacks on tax collectors or landlords. … Cosmopolitan, modular, and autonomous performances, in contrast, propagate across groups and localities even in the absence of dense interpersonal ties, just so long as linking organizations, media, and brokers make the crucial connections. The components of revolutionary situations and outcomes—formation of revolutionary coalitions, popular commitment to those coalitions, rulers’ failure to suppress them, defections of regime members, and so on—happen differently according to the availability of different claim-making performances. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 981

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s hypothesis-testing project: this distinction between how parochial vs. cosmopolitan repertoires propagate is exactly the mechanism that would determine whether institutional absorption channels contention differently across regime types. — connects to: Regime and repertoire organization shapes which revolutionary shifts occur. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 995; Repertoire change intertwines regime transformation, internal struggle history, and broader social change — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 287; Repertoires vary with class relations, issue type, and gathering occasion across settings — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 314 (+5 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 981

Broader Connections

• Regime and repertoire organization shapes which revolutionary shifts occur. #expands (0.88) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 995
• Nonrevolutionary claim-making forms later become available as revolutionary instruments when repertoires diffuse #qualifies (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 984
• Repertoire change intertwines regime transformation, internal struggle history, and broader social change #expands (0.82) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 287
• Repertoires vary with class relations, issue type, and gathering occasion across settings #qualifies (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 314
• Regime change drives repertoire change more than popular consciousness does #complicates (0.78)
• Repertoire change happens through continuous modulation, not sharp breaks. #complicates (0.74) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 352