State growth shifted revolutionary coalitions from direct to indirect organizational forms

Evidence

Over the whole period from 1492 to 1991, the relative prevalence of these different coalition types altered dramatically in Europe. One trend follows obviously from our earlier analyses of regimes. As states and therefore regimes increased in geographic scale, coalitions consisting mainly of directly connected political actors became less and less prominent. Revolutionary situations based on communal, dynastic, and patron-client coalitions recurred during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but faded away thereafter. Less directly connected military, class coalition, and national networks of regime opponents took their places. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1016

Categorization

• XREF: New avenues of connection to reader’s interest: Tilly’s scale-correlated coalition shift is precisely the kind of measurable regime-linked variation that could frame whether institutional absorption channels politicization differently by scale. — connects to: Segmented early states made revolutions break vertical ties rather than horizontal ones; Regime structure determines revolutionary situation frequency and character — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1045; Revolutionary coalitions vary along territorial-interest and direct-indirect connection axes — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 999 (+3 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1016

Broader Connections

• Economic growth ultimately shifts power from governments to their own middle classes #expands (0.72) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 519