Regimes and RepertoiresThe means by which people protest—that is, their repertoires of contention—vary radically from one political regime to the next. Highly capable undemocratic regimes such as China's show no visible signs of popular social movements, yet produce many citizen protests against arbitrary, predatory government. Less effective and undemocratic governments like the Sudan’s, meanwhile, often experience regional insurgencies and even civil wars. In Regimes and Repertoires, Charles Tilly offers a fascinating and wide-ranging case-by-case study of various types of government and the equally various styles of protests they foster. |
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... means by which people engage in contentious politics. Repertoires kept reappearing in contexts ranging from political boundary activation to inter- group violence. But the siblings—regimes and repertoires—deserved their own vehicle ...
... means by which people engage in contentious politics . Repertoires kept reappearing in con- texts ranging from political boundary activation to inter- group violence . But the siblings — regimes and reper- toires — deserved their own ...
... means of systematic comparisons among episodes. Nevertheless, its fundamen- tal assumptions belong to the DOC tradition: ▻ ▻ When it comes to large-scale political structures and processes, no gen- eral laws or sufficient conditions ...
... means, another school argues that strikes entail compromises of labor with capital and thereby integrate workers unwittingly into capitalism, while a third view treats strikes as rational, essential means of struggle in competitive ...
... means by which people living in various sorts of regimes make consequential collective claims on each other and on their gov- ernments—their contentious politics—vary and change? 3. What connections exist—in both directions—between ...
Contents
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3 Repertoires of Contention | 30 |
4 Repertoires Meet Regimes | 60 |
5 Trajectories of Change | 90 |
6 Collective Violence | 118 |
7 Revolutions | 151 |
8 Social Movements | 179 |
9 Conclusions | 209 |
References | 217 |
Index | 243 |