Social-movement activity depends on regime-backed rights to endure retaliation
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. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1178
Categorization
- XREF: This supports the institutional-absorption mechanism the reader is testing: movements survive only where a rights regime shields them, implying the rights regime itself channels which claims flourish. — connects to: Sustained challenge plus WUNC displays defines the social movement form — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1128; Legalizing demonstrations made claim-making less violent but more frequent — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1326; Whether police carry lethal arms reflects the regime’s democratization path — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1316 (+11 more)
Broader Connections
- Regime coercion weakly deters protest while dissident coercive capacity strongly enables rebellion
#corroborates(0.85) - Organized violence creates member security that validates the movement’s fictitious world
#corroborates(0.80) - Invisibility from retaliation confers power to act with impunity.
#corroborates(0.80) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 342 - Long domination produces adjustment to rather than rebellion
#qualifies(0.75) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 2121 - Material privilege and status rewards cement loyalty to a violent regime
#corroborates(0.70) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 675