Social-movement organizations change faster than their performance repertoires

Evidence

Is nothing new? Some students of transnational movements (for example, Bennett 2003, 2004) reply that electronic communication is facilitating the formation of virtual political communities capable of nearly instantaneous international mobilization, and that the countersummits, social forums, antiwar demonstrations, and similar phenomena of recent years constitute dramatic new forms of claim-making. Yet if (as Tartakowsky fears for France) the large but short-lived, single-issue demonstration is gaining ground, it has not driven out or much transformed the other standard social-movement performances at the national scale. So far, the organizational bases of social movements have shifted far more than their repertoires. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1270

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s regime-capacity matrix work: repertoire inertia at national scale despite organizational shifts bears on whether institutional channels absorb new contention. — connects to: Changes in demonstration form reflect deeper shifts in social movement politics — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1231; Social movements’ organizational bases shift far more than their repertoires; Modern protest movements are transient swarms held together by stimuli, not durable organizations — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 229
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1270

Broader Connections

• Social movements’ organizational bases shift far more than their repertoires #expands (1.00)
• Modern protest movements are transient swarms held together by stimuli, not durable organizations #complicates (0.75) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 229