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978-1-927213-36-0. OCLC. 886960771. Dirty Politics: How attack politics is poisoning New Zealand’s political environment is a book by Nicky Hager published in August 2014. The book is based on emails hacked from Cameron Slater 's Gmail account and on Facebook chats. These communications occurred around the same time that a denial-of-service ...
Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain. Forms of corruption vary, but can include bribery, lobbying, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, parochialism, patronage, influence peddling, graft, and embezzlement. Corruption may facilitate criminal enterprise such as drug ...
Graft (politics) Graft, as understood in American English, is a form of political corruption defined as the unscrupulous use of a politician's authority for personal gain. Political graft occurs when funds intended for public projects are intentionally misdirected in order to maximize the benefits to private interests.
As far as politics are concerned, some analysts believe Trump’s digs against Biden may prove effective. A key part of Biden’s appeal to voters is the idea that he represents a return to ...
Right-wing politics is the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically supporting this position based on natural law, economics, authority, property, religion, biology, or tradition.
Ratfucking. Ratfucking is an American slang term for behind the scenes ( covert) political sabotage or dirty tricks, particularly pertaining to elections. It was brought to public attention by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in All the President's Men (1974), the book that chronicled their investigative reporting of the Watergate scandal .
In the United States, politics functions within a framework of a constitutional federal republic. The three distinct branches hold share powers: the U.S. Congress which forms the legislative branch, a bicameral legislative body comprising the House of Representatives and the Senate; the executive branch, which is headed by the president of the ...
Kakistocracy. A kakistocracy ( / kækɪˈstɒkrəsi /, / kækɪsˈtɒ -/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. [1] : 54 [2] [3] The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century. [4] Peter Bowler has noted in his book that there is no word for the government run by the best citizens, [a] and ...