2022
DOI: 10.1177/00219096221140745
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Predatory Co-optation and Party System Reversal: A Behavioural Perspective on Zambian Political Parties

Abstract: Based on a Zambian case study of the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), this paper applies the behavioural theory of party competition to explain how, through vote-seeking and office-seeking strategies, political parties may employ rapacious predatory co-optation of members from competing political parties as a mobilisation strategy. The paper concludes that in the absence of a dominant political party, parties and political elites may resort to predation to bolster their electoral fortunes. While predat… Show more

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