Opposition (politics)

[2] Recent studies have found that popular unrest regarding the economy and quality of life can be used by political opposition to mobilize and to demand change.

For example, members of opposition have made their way into office in Nepal and Sri Lanka has been hosting elections in regions known to previously not hold them.

[4] As social media has become a larger part of society and culture around the world, so too has online political opposition.

Various factors like censorship, selective censoring, polarization, and echo chambers have changed the way that political opposition presents itself.

[citation needed] Controlled opposition can also mean a party or group that stands as a placeholder for the opposition, but who are ultimately completely ineffective and therefore everything is "controlled" by the ruling parties, without necessarily a direct conspiracy taking place.