The demonstration form is spreading to authoritarian regimes while core repertoire stays static
Evidence
Yet recall the lesson from this chapter’s opening vignette of Evian in 2003. For all the change in issues, slogans, symbols, and objects of claims, the standard combination of social-movement performances remains in place: marches; rallies; processions; demonstrations; occupations; picket lines; blockades; public meetings; delegations; statements to and in public media; petition drives; letter-writing; pamphleteering; lobbying; and creating specialized associations, coalitions, or fronts. In advance of the social movement’s institutionalization, the demonstration itself is spreading well beyond democratic regimes as a means of challenging corrupt and authoritarian rulers. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1266
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Diffusion of the demonstration outward from democratizing West parallels the reader’s own article on dress-panic and rights signals spreading across regimes.
Related
- Demonstrations detached from social movements and diffused into nondemocratic regimes (similarity 0.86)
- Increasingly transnational movements have surprisingly left the basic repertoire unchanged (similarity 0.84)
- Social movements’ organizational bases shift far more than their repertoires (similarity 0.80)
- Only their joint combination distinguishes social movements from other politics (similarity 0.79)
- Legalizing demonstrations made claim-making less violent but more frequent (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Regime change drives repertoire change more than popular consciousness does
#expands(0.75) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 659