{"product_id":"shouting-in-a-cage-9780231208598","title":"Shouting in a Cage","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShouting in a Cage \u003c\/i\u003eoffers 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the book on co-optation that we never knew we needed. Fenner’s book does something that only the very best books in the social sciences do: it takes a concept that readers think they already understand and forces them to rethink what it means, why it occurs, and how it works. This book offers a new way to understand why political parties become co-opted and how they survive it. -- Adria K. Lawrence, author of \u003ci\u003eImperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe officially recognized opposition parties of the Arab world’s authoritarian regimes are often viewed as mere handmaidens to dictatorship. In this remarkable study, based on years of rich archival and ethnographic research in Egypt and Morocco, Sofia Fenner offers an alternative and wholly convincing perspective, describing how the rigors of life under dictatorship force once-independent political parties to invest in survival at the expense of trying to garner mass support. Though this renders them unable to claim a share of power, it endows them with a capacity for resilience and even ferocity that speaks to their independent origins and their future potential. This is the work of a gifted scholar that is necessary reading for all scholars of authoritarian regimes, democratization, and political parties. -- Tarek Masoud, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003eHistorically rich and intellectually compelling, \u003ci\u003eShouting in a Cage\u003c\/i\u003e challenges conventional thinking about opposition co-optation and reconceptualizes it as practice and process while elegantly centering narrative as a central political force. -- Sarah E. Parkinson, author of \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Lines: Social Networks and Palestinian Militant Organizations in Wartime Lebanon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCo-optation is one of political science’s strangest concepts—always invoked yet seldom examined. Sofia Fenner meticulously gives form to this amorphous idea with a creative pairing of neutralized parties in Egypt and Morocco. This is an illuminating analysis of the terrible options facing political parties under authoritarianism. -- Mona El-Ghobashy, author of \u003ci\u003eBread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNote on Transliterations, Names, and Titles\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Co-optation in History and Theory\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. The Wafd and the Istiqlal\u003cbr\u003e2. Conceptualizing Co-optation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. A Changed Life: How Co-optation Neutralizes Opposition\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Co-optation as Interpretative Dilemma: Istiqlal’s Democratic Journey\u003cbr\u003e4. Co-optation as Interpretive Dilemma: The Wafd at War\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Life Goes On: How Co-opted Opposition Survives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Party-as-Family\u003cbr\u003e6. Generation After Generation: Making Sense of Confrontational Turns\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Authoritarianism as Tragedy\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864264356183,"sku":"9780231208598","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231208598.jpg?v=1722271138","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shouting-in-a-cage-9780231208598","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}