This comprehensive Handbook examines the role of political opposition across different political systems. Contributors draw on a series of in-depth case studies, including specific chapters on country-cases to explore the impact of opposition within democracies, anocracies (or hybrid regimes), and autocracies.
Leading experts explore political opposition through a theoretical and comparative perspective, identifying a common analytic framework that can be applied across regime types. They assess the many forms political opposition can take, from opposition parties and interest groups to mass protests and violent action. The Handbook examines why particular modes of opposition manifest, while empirical chapters focus on the diversity and commonalities in opposition politics across the world, using a broad range of examples from Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. The Handbook builds on several literatures in the sub-discipline of comparative politics, ultimately shedding light on the dynamics, dimensions and constraints of political opposition.
Providing insight into the theory and practice of opposition politics, this expansive Handbook will greatly benefit scholars and students of comparative political science, public policy, and European and international politics.
This comprehensive Handbook examines the role of political opposition across different political systems. Contributors draw on a series of in-depth case studies, including specific chapters on country-cases to explore the impact of opposition within democracies, anocracies (or hybrid regimes), and autocracies.
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This timely Handbook offers a comprehensive study of oppositional politics exploring parties, interest groups, NGOs, and social movements. Its diverse case studies highlight formal and informal resistance strategies across authoritarian and democratic contexts, enriching understanding of opposition tactics and objectives. This is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the tools of resistance, and the challenges resistance efforts face. -- Natasha Lindstaedt, University of Essex, UK Too often political science just thinks of government operating independently. We study what happens within government, but much more rarely is the interaction between government and opposition focused on. Through the use of thematic reviews and country case studies the Handbook on Opposition Politics makes a valuable and original contribution to the political science literature. -- David Farrell, University College Dublin, Ireland A truly refreshing study of the concept and dimensions of opposition politics covering cases from across the globe. The Handbook eloquently highlights the importance of opposition politics, which is rarely at the fore, and offers fascinating insights into the dynamics that impede and support opposition actors in democracies, anocracies and authoritarian regimes. -- Lise Storm, University of Exeter, UK
Contents
1 Introduction: opposition politics in democracies, anocracies and
autocracies 1
Alexander Baturo, Eoin OMalley and Francesco Cavatorta
PART I FORMS OF POLITICAL OPPOSITION
2 The changing shape of formal opposition in advanced democracies 11
Eoin OMalley
3 Informal opposition politics in arts, culture, and youth 25
Cristina Moreno Almeida
4 Civil society as an oppositional force in democratic and non-democratic
regimes 39
Vincent Durac
5 Humour as political opposition 53
Ross Carroll
6 Everyday opposition 67
Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink
PART II DEMOCRATIC REGIMES
7 Americas own brand of extremists? Militias and anti-Government opposition
in the United States 81
Victor Bardou-Bourgeois
8 Japan: weak opposition in a dominant party system 95
Ko Maeda
9 The political opposition in India 107
Subrata K. Mitra, Jivanta Schottli and Markus Pauli
10 The United Kingdom: loyal opposition as a political institution 123
Nigel Fletcher
11 Chilean opposition dynamics: mechanisms of status quo reproduction 137
Bruna Fonseca, Inés Fynn and Lihuen Nocetto
12 Opposition and two-party politics in Ghana 151
Anja Osei
13 Opposition in action: divides, strategies and constraints in Brazils
legislative arena 169
Bianca Flório Lima
PART III ANOCRACIES
14 The Crown and its peripheries: understanding opposition dynamics in the
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan 191
Paul Esber
15 Indonesias weak opposition amidst party cartelisation 207
Alexandre Pelletier
16 Polands opposition politics: resisting the populist swing 223
Agnieszka Kwiatkowska
17 Colombia: opposition in the midst of uncertainty 245
Laura Gamboa
18 Opposition politics in Senegal: from legal recognition to governmental
turnover 261
Marie Brossier
19 State resistance and complementarity among the women of Hizb ut-Tahrir in
Tunisia 275
Alessandra Bonci
PART IV AUTOCRATIC REGIMES
20 Exiting as opposition: the case of Cuba 293
Bert Hoffmann
21 China: systematic surveillance, censorship and repression 305
Alexandre Schiele and Ting-Sheng Lin
22 Destroying opposition in autocracy: the case of Russia in 19912024 319
Nikita Khokhlov
23 Unpacking the world of opposition in Venezuela 19992023: the Who and the
How 337
Maryhen Jiménez
24 From the Royal Court to the data feed: political opposition in and
beyond Saudi Arabia 351
Javier Bordón
25 The Syrian offshore opposition lack of presence, lack of leverage? 367
Gianmarco Fontana
26 The evolution of political opposition in post-revolutionary Iran 379
Mohsen Moheimany
Edited by Eoin OMalley, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland, Francesco Cavatorta, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Université Laval, Canada and Alexander Baturo, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland
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