War-driven state growth displaced contention toward national-scale parliamentary arenas

Evidence

Third, the rising intensity of British military efforts, at least through 1815, impelled an expansion of taxes, national debt, and service bureaucracies, which increased not only the state’s size but also its weight within the economy. In the process, Parliament—critical to every decision concerning governmental revenue, expenditure, and personnel—occupied ever more space in political decisions. These changes, too, promoted a shift toward contention that was large in scale and national in scope. In addition, they enhanced the strategic advantage and maneuverability of formally constituted associations, especially those with national constituencies, as bases for contention. They made parliamentary elections more critical to national issues, encouraged contested elections, drew nonvoters more intensely into electoral campaigns, and encouraged the formation of “para-parliamentary” politics in such guises as national social movements, national petition drives, and calls for a mass platform. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 356

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s overall frame on the regime-capacity/democracy matrix — this describes the expanding-capacity + parliamentarizing state channeling contention into institutional (electoral/para-parliamentary) forms, which is precisely the ‘institutional absorption’ pathway the reader wants to test. — connects to: State growth shifted revolutionary coalitions from direct to indirect organizational forms — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1016; High-capacity regimes route contention through government, making mobilization affect regime structure. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 664
• ADDENDUM: Supports the reader’s hypothesis that institutional absorption (parliamentary-electoral channels) defuses subordinate politicization by routing it into para-parliamentary contention.
• SEED: Possible essay angle: war-driven state strengthening itself creates the national arena that subordinates later use to press claims — institutional capacity building is a precondition for modern social movements.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 356

Broader Connections

• High-capacity regimes route contention through government, making mobilization affect regime structure. #expands (0.90) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 664
• State growth shifted revolutionary coalitions from direct to indirect organizational forms #expands (0.85) — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1016