Regimes And Repertoires

by Tilly, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780226803500
• ISBN10: 0226803503
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

The means by which people protestthat is, their repertoires of contentionvary 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. Using examples drawn from many areasG8 summit and anti-globalization protests, Hindu activism in 1980s India, nineteenth-century English Chartists organizing on behalf of workers' rights, the revolutions of 1848, and civil wars in Angola, Chechnya, and KosovoTilly masterfully shows that such episodes of contentious politics unfold like loosely scripted theater. Along the way, Tilly also brings forth powerful tools to sort out the reasons why certain political regimes vary and change, how the people living under them make claims on their government, and what connections can be drawn between regime change and the character of contentious politics.

Author Biography

Charles Tilly is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including, most recently, Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650–2000 and Stories, Identities, and Political Change.
 

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
What Are Regimes?	1	(17)
How Regimes Work	18	(12)
Repertoires of Contention	30	(30)
Repertoires, Meet Regimes	60	(30)
Trajectories of Change	90	(28)
Collective Violence	118	(33)
Revolutions	151	(28)
Social Movements	179	(30)
Conclusions	209	(8)
References	217	(26)
Index	243