cooptation

Investigators and judges are selected via cooptation, not recruited through a public selection procedure.

The revolutionaries declined to make specific demands as a defense against cooptation by established political parties or the labor unions.

At the heart of punk ideology lies a harsh condemnation of modern society combined with a self-conscious sense of irony about the commercial cooptation of the message of this supposedly antisocial music.

In order to prevent cooptation of their delegates, the organization changed representatives every few months.