coalition building
Forging political partnerships
Coalition building is the process of forming alliances among groups or individuals who share a common goal.
The term appears most often in political and activist contexts, where disparate factions must unite to achieve influence they couldn't manage alone: Coalition building across labor unions and environmental groups strengthened the campaign.
Success requires finding overlapping interests despite differences.
- collaborationJoint intellectual work
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
- behind closed doorsIn private, unobserved
- community leadersThose directing local groups
- common groundPoints of agreement
common cause · big tent · strange bedfellows · policymakers · grassroots organizing · lobbying · policy reform · stakeholders · power-sharing · unions · facilitation · collective action · social change · united front · conflict resolution · community organizing · communication barriers · nonprofit organizations
- democracyvote, voting, election, elections, ballot
- politicsdemocracy, campaigning, campaigns, democrats, bill
- activismboycotts, activists, activist, advocate, demonstrating
- campaigningcandidate, campaign signs, canvassing, campaign manager, fundraising
- public affairspolitics, election, campaign, polling, poll
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
coalition buildinggoing it alone
Acting independently, unassisted
unilateralism · isolationism · self-reliance · autonomy · individualism
coalition buildingfragmentation
Breaking into smaller pieces
dissolution · disintegration · splintering · factionalism · divisiveness
coalition buildingdivisiveness
Tendency to create factions
polarization · alienation · antagonism · exclusion · sabotage