oppositionism

Guys like Eric Cantor and Mike Pence in the House and Jim DeMint and Mitch McConnell in the Senate have, likewise, really been digging in their heels on the idea that blanket oppositionism is the way to go.

Matthew Yglesias » The Right’s Civil War 2009

The unity is threatened at times by one-sided notions of "oppositionism", and of "civil society" being simply a "watch-dog".

DEBATING CASTELLS AND CARNOY ON THE NETWORK SOCIETY1 1999

Developing a 'strong' Parliament/legislature (s) involves articulating an alternative conception of parliamentary politics, which fundamentally unsettles the trivialising logic of "oppositionism".

Introduction 1969

Labour has all to play for unless we revert to 'oppositionism' like we did in the 1950s and the 1980s. "

Epolitix News 2010

Brown's Republican opponents, increasingly cartoonish in their reflexive oppositionism, amusingly released their video attacks on his State of the State a day before he delivered it, when the speech was certainly not finished.

William Bradley: Stating the State: Jerry Brown Gets Disciplined and Lays It Out William Bradley 2012

But now the party seems to be too obsessed with oppositionism to contribute constructively to the national conversation.

If the Mitt Fits 2010

They crafted a strategy of total oppositionism to anything Obama proposed a year ago.

Michael J.W. Stickings: Coakley Will Lose to Brown, but What Will Become of Health Care Reform? 2010

This is partly due to the haemorrhaging of experienced cadreship, and tendencies towards mechanical oppositionism in relation to government or towards an exclusive focus on narrow self-interest.

BUILDING A NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY [STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THE ANC] 2007

This is partly due to the haemorrhaging of experienced cadreship, and tendencies towards mechanical oppositionism in relation to government or towards an exclusive focus on narrow self-interest.

ANC 52nd National Conference 2007 2007

This is partly due to the haemorrhaging of experienced cadreship, and tendencies towards mechanical oppositionism in relation to government or towards an exclusive focus on narrow self-interest.

Strategy and Tactics of the ANC 2007