Revolutionary situations and civil wars overlap but measure distinct phenomena

Evidence

The distinction between revolutionary situations and civil wars begins to dissolve before our eyes. If we want to maintain the distinction, we will do so by pointing out that they overlap a great deal, but still not perfectly. The elements of a revolutionary situation—contenders with competing claims, citizen commitment to each set of claims, and failed governmental suppression of claims—sometimes come together without constitution of separate armies on each side. … Competing armies, furthermore, sometimes battle for control of a government with little or no civilian support. Lack of widespread commitment to the revolutionary coalitions disqualifies these civil wars as revolutionary situations according to my proposed definition. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 989

Categorization

• DEFINE: Tilly pins revolutionary situation to three elements: competing contenders’ claims, citizen commitment, failed suppression — presence or absence of separate armies is not the differentiator.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 989
• XREF: connects to: Civil war and terror are causally heterogeneous, not unitary phenomena — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 789; Comparing politically different struggles requires studying shared causal mechanisms across forms — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in…, 1207

Broader Connections

• Comparing politically different struggles requires studying shared causal mechanisms across forms #corroborates (0.82) — James Renton, Ben Gidley (eds.), Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe, 1207