[movimenti.bicocca] Regimes and Repertoires (nuovo di Tilly)

Regimes and Repertoires
by Charles Tilly
Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press (September 15, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN: 0226803503
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches


Review
Jack Goldstone :
"In Regimes and Repertoires, Charles Tilly is at his inventive and
wide-ranging best. Tilly takes us into the minds of rulers and rebels
to examine how their opportunities and choices have shaped each
others' actions. Using a simple but powerful theory of regime types
and a rich array of historical and contemporary cases, he provides
fresh new explanations for the variation in modern political
struggles, from peaceful protest to genocide and terrorism. This
small book bursts with big ideas."--Jack Goldstone, George Mason
University



Book Description
The 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.

Using examples drawn from many areas—G8 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 Kosovo—Tilly
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.