Rights of association, assembly, and speech determine where social-movement mobilization concentrates

Evidence

Concretely, social-movement campaigns, performances, and WUNC displays depend on regime-backed rights, notably rights of association, assembly, and speech. Without sturdy defenses for such rights, powerful objects of unwelcome claims regularly retaliate against the claimants, call down governmental repression on the performances, and break up displays of WUNC. The Freedom House ratings of regimes’ political rights and civil liberties reviewed in chapter 4 underline a point that should be obvious to any observer of contemporary regimes: those rights concentrate heavily in democratic regimes, especially high-capacity, democratic regimes. (Low-capacity, democratic regimes such as Jamaica and the Philippines more often feature divisions between zones in which the state actually enforces rights and others in which those rights have little sway.) Broad, equal, binding consultation and protection both build on and promote rights of association, assembly, and speech. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1178

Categorization

• XREF: Central to the reader’s test: Tilly asserts regime-backed rights CAUSE social-movement activity and protect claimants from retaliation — the mechanism by which institutional absorption might defuse, or channel, politicization. But note the asymmetry target: Tilly only frames rights as protecting claimants, not as legitimating dominant-group counter-mobilization as ‘rights defense’. — connects to: Social-movement activity depends on regime-backed rights to endure retaliation — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1178; General speech and assembly rights both enable and are shaped by demonstrations — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1199; Regime-specific histories shape the repertoires available to social movements. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1172
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1178

Broader Connections

• General speech and assembly rights both enable and are shaped by demonstrations #corroborates (0.90) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1199
• Social-movement activity depends on regime-backed rights to endure retaliation #expands (0.86) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1178
• Regime-specific histories shape the repertoires available to social movements. #qualifies (0.78) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1172