Co-option, also known as co-optation and sometimes spelt cooption or cooptation, is a term with three common meanings. It may refer to:
Mother Louse was a famous alewife who is seen wearing a pointy hat that was believed to demarcate her in the marketplace as a brewer.
A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in elections and participate in governance. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, an
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…geographical constituencies (as used in legislatures in the United States and United Kingdom) constituencies of adherents to a political party, known as proportional representation (as used in legislatures in Israel and New Zealand) ethnic groups (as used in Māori constituencies in the New…
The members of a political party, such as those of the Indian National Congress (pictured), coordinate to collectively achieve and use political power.
In A Block for the Wigs (1783), James Gillray caricatured Fox's return to power in a coalition with North. George III is the blockhead in the centre.
Political parties like the Romanian Communist Party can arise out of, or be closely connected to, existing segments of society, such as organizations of workers.
It is easier for voters to evaluate one simple list of policies for each party, like this platform for the United Australia Party, than to individually judge every single candidate.