Uneven territorial control shapes the repertoire of contentious politics

Evidence

Nevertheless, we will see that how continuously and territorially a government exercises surveillance and control makes a large difference to the everyday operation of regimes and to the interplay of regimes with contentious politics. In the case of Peru’s recent past, we already noticed a large difference between the government’s relatively secure control of the lowlands and its constant challenges in the high mountains. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 193

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s test: if regime capacity varies across territory, the capacity-democracy matrix’s predictive power depends on which part of a regime’s territory a contentious group inhabits — institutional absorption in capitals may not defuse politicization in weakly governed hinterlands. — connects to: Governmental capacity causally shapes the character of contentious politics — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1310; Political agency requires stable location, place, and commitment rather than flux — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 921; Contentious repertoires vary systematically with location in regime space, datable from either direction. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 432
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 193

Broader Connections

• Political agency requires stable location, place, and commitment rather than flux #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 921