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Shouting in a Cage: Political Life After Authoritarian Co-Optation in North Africa

Shouting in a Cage: Political Life After Authoritarian Co-Optation in North Africa - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Sofia FennerSeries:Columbia Studies in Middle East PoliticsPublish date:2023-07-11Pages:280
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231208598ISBN-10:231208596UPC:9780231208598Book Category:Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Political Ideologies, Anthropology, WorldBook Topic:Fascism & Totalitarianism, Cultural & Social, AfricanSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCMR5Y0ZKE

Durable authoritarian rule often rests on the co-optation of challengers. The conventional story is straightforward: rulers entice opposition groups to "sell out," offering them benefits if they set aside their antiauthoritarian aspirations and become part of the system. However, co-optation does not always neutralize former adversaries, and even seemingly domesticated opponents can turn on their rulers. Co-optation does weaken opposition--but it is not as simple, reliable, or transactional as existing theories claim.

Shouting in a Cage offers new ways to understand co-optation's power and its limits by examining two co-opted parties, the Wafd Party in Egypt and the Istiqlal Party in Morocco. Sofia Fenner argues that co-optation is less a corrupt bargain than a discursive contest--a clash of competing interpretations. Co-opted parties conjure up imagined futures in which their short-term choices will lead to the realization of their long-term democratic goals. Meanwhile, other actors point to the disconnect between these parties' antiauthoritarian aspirations and their participation in authoritarian systems. Fenner demonstrates that co-opted parties come to look hypocritical precisely because they refuse to give up their oppositional commitments. Their credibility sapped, they become unappealing allies and, eventually, political afterthoughts. However, such parties retain a surprising capacity for opposition, rooted in the literal and metaphorical idea of "party as family." Based on extensive archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in North Africa, Shouting in a Cage broadens our understanding of political behavior under authoritarianism.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231208598ISBN-10:231208596UPC:9780231208598Book Category:Political Science, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Political Ideologies, Anthropology, WorldBook Topic:Fascism & Totalitarianism, Cultural & Social, AfricanSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.851Product ID:SCMR5Y0ZKE
Sofia Fenner is assistant professor of political science at Colorado College. She is a coauthor of Coercive Distribution (2018).
Publisher: Columbia University Press

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