Theory of reverse roles

Theory of reverse roles, is a new political theory founded by a Jordanian political analyst called Emad Abdullah Ayasrah, considering it as a complementary theory of Group decision making. He mentioned it for the first time in an article in Arabic media, when he analysed the Turkish attitude toward the war on Syria.
The theory
The theory states that: when a political group in power takes an unexpected position about an issue , its classical political opponents will be most likely conservative or at least not enthusiastic on that issue as it would be otherwise expected in other words both parties "reverse thier role". However, when that group change its position back to make it more coherent with its classical point of view, this group will face less opposition. This will give the decision more power and will influence the consensus positively.
Reverse roles is used to face a new situations where the leading party expects opposition to be high.
Emad mentioned an example about Turkish attitude toward the war on Syria, he told that Turkey's Justice and Development Party AKP) supported U.S. efforts in Syria although this Islamic party should be against U.S. plans. On the other side we found secularist opposed U.S. plans towards Syria. This polarized reverse roles made it easier for the islamic party in power to avoid the war on syria.
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