Well-brokered cross-organizational coalitions coordinated large-scale resistance
Evidence
In 1985, a similar (and, in fact, overlapping) coalition of trade unions formed the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). Those well-brokered organizations coordinated widespread resistance to the regime. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 577
Categorization
- XREF: UDF/COSATU coalition formation is Tilly’s own evidence that brokerage among previously separate formations is a key repertoire-transformation mechanism under low-capacity high-democracy-type pressures. — connects to: Coalition formation is where coordination theory and sociology meet — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 690; Hierarchical merit systems turn peer cooperation into competition and block group action — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 499; Consensus-based horizontal structures let tiny minorities veto prominent allies — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 266 (+8 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 577
Broader Connections
- The group organized as a Quaker-inspired coalition model
#exemplifies(0.83) - Breaking a distrust equilibrium requires coordinated multi-agent action
#expands(0.82) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 475 - Coalitions across difference inevitably conflict and need active management to endure
#qualifies(0.80) — Michelle I. Gawerc, Coalition-building and the forging of…, 247 - Small groups cooperate easily but large groups fail without coordination
#qualifies(0.79) — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 412 - Perceived punitive costs from cooperating with successors blocked coalition formation
#complicates(0.78) — Anna M. Grzymala-Busse, Redeeming The Communist Past, 1240 - Event coalitions can achieve political goals while modulating internal difference and inequality
#expands(0.78) — Michelle I. Gawerc, Coalition-building and the forging of…, 323 - Consensus-based horizontal structures let tiny minorities veto prominent allies
#qualifies(0.76) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 266 - Hierarchical merit systems turn peer cooperation into competition and block group action
#complicates(0.75) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 499 - Coalition formation is where coordination theory and sociology meet
#expands(0.74) — Thomas C. Schelling, The Strategy of Conflict, 690 - Individual resistance is too weak to counter coercive organizational pressure
#corroborates(0.72)