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In politics, a defector is a person who gives up allegiance to one state in exchange for allegiance to another, changing sides in a way which is considered illegitimate by the first state. [1] More broadly, defection involves abandoning a person, cause, or doctrine to which one is bound by some tie, as of allegiance or duty.
How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive is a 2024 non-fiction book written by Marcel Dirsus and published by John Murray. [1] [2] The book examines historical strategies for overthrowing dictators and their effectiveness in the modern era, particularly in the context of contemporary mass surveillance technologies.
Though corruption was a global phenomenon, the Gandhi period saw the disruptive politics of defection become rampant in India. [ 7 ] With rising public opinion [ citation needed ] for an anti-defection law, immediately after securing a clear majority in 1984, Rajiv Gandhi proposed the new anti-defection bill in the Parliament.
Year of defection Country of defection Maurizio Gelli Businessman Italy: 2009 Nicaragua: Edward Snowden: National Security Agency contractor: United States: 2013: Russia: Choe In-guk South Korean citizen South Korea: 2019 North Korea: Evan Neumann: Trumpist militant United States 2022 Belarus: Emil Czeczko: Polish Land Forces: Poland: 2021 ...
Although he never used the words "collective action problem", Thomas Hobbes was an early philosopher on the topic of human cooperation. Hobbes believed that people act purely out of self-interest, writing in Leviathan in 1651 that "if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies."
Defective democracy (or flawed democracy) is a concept that was proposed by the political scientists Wolfgang Merkel, Hans-Jürgen Puhle and Aurel S. Croissant at the beginning of the 21st century to subtilize the distinctions between totalitarian, authoritarian, and democratic political systems. [1] [2] It is based on the concept of embedded ...
The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total of productive forces as rapidly as possible. [17]
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics is a 2011 non-fiction book by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith, published by the company PublicAffairs. It discusses how politicians gain and retain political power. Bueno de Mesquita is a fellow at the Hoover Institution. [1]