0 (of an elected group) to make someone a member through the choice of the present members: --
1 to persuade someone who criticizes or disagrees with you to join your group so that the person can no longer oppose you: --
In the first place, presidents had at their disposal important economic and political resources to co-opt regional elites.
It is perhaps not surprising that hegemonic structures in society would co-opt and instrumentalize the most radical and threatening aspects of piety.
But it does not follow that these arrangements can co-opt radical consumerism.
To prevent and control crime and delinquency you need to co-opt the gang and redirect the group's activities towards more positive ends.
States obliged, mobilising new-found resources to repress and co-opt regional warlords.
The second aims to co-opt the extremes and include them as participants in and beneficiaries of compromise.
Fourth, in a colonial setting where the government needed to co-opt the local elite, the parastatal design provided an ideal institutional infrastructure.
Both governments worked diligently to co-opt organized labor following independence.
