The regime space supports both static placement and dynamic trajectory plotting.

Evidence

Statically, it allows us to place different regimes—for example, comparing Peru of 1980 (an incipient democracy with a mediumto high-capacity government) to Costa Rica (a fairly extensive democracy with medium-capacity government) in the same year. Dynamically, it allows us to sketch trajectories, for example the movement of Peru from the petty tyrannies of the nineteenth century to the higher-capacity, semi-democracy of the twenty-first. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 172

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 172