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Opportunistic exploitation of issues
Name(s):
Carpetbagging
Incidence
Originally applied to politicians from the Northern United States who went to the South after the civil war to try to exploit the unstable situation there for their own profit. (They often carried all their belongings in a carpetbag.)
Broader
Abusive sales techniques
Related
Abusive distribution of political patronage
Opportunist bias in public discussion and research on development
Value(s)
Exploitation
Opportunism
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems