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

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.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliterations, Names, and Titles
Introduction
Part I. Co-optation in History and Theory
1. The Wafd and the Istiqlal
2. Conceptualizing Co-optation
Part II. A Changed Life: How Co-optation Neutralizes Opposition
3. Co-optation as Interpretative Dilemma: Istiqlal’s Democratic Journey
4. Co-optation as Interpretive Dilemma: The Wafd at War
Part III. Life Goes On: How Co-opted Opposition Survives
5. Party-as-Family
6. Generation After Generation: Making Sense of Confrontational Turns
Conclusion: Authoritarianism as Tragedy
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Sofia Fenner is assistant professor of political science at Colorado College. She is a coauthor of Coercive Distribution (2018).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sofia Fenner
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2023
• EAN: 9780231208581
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20858-1
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Columbia Studies in Middle East Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Egypt, HISTORY / Africa / North, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Morocco, Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship, Middle Eastern history, African History, Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship, HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt, political science; social science