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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 ...
The problem of dirty hands concerns whether political leaders and those in similar positions can ever be justified in committing even gravely immoral actions when "dirtying their hands" in this way is necessary for realizing some important moral or political end, such as the preservation of a community's continued existence or the prevention of imminent societal catastrophe.
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 .
Trumpism is a political movement in the United States that comprises the political ideologies associated with Donald Trump and his political base. [7] [8] It incorporates ideologies such as right-wing populism, national conservatism, and neo-nationalism, and has been described as authoritarian [a] and neo-fascist.
But the bluntness of the attacks in the current campaign raises complex questions about both the ethical implications and political wisdom of questioning an opponent’s mental fitness.
A dictatorship is an autocratic form of government which is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, who hold governmental powers with few to no limitations. Politics in a dictatorship are controlled by a dictator, and they are facilitated through an inner circle of elites that includes advisers, generals, and other high-ranking officials.
Dirty Tricks (scandal) (British Airways scandal) Dirty Tricks (film), a 1981 American comedy film. Political sabotage, also known as ratfucking in the United States. The chicanery involved in the Watergate scandal (early 1970s, United States) John N. Mitchell § Dirty tricks. The dirty trick, a political scandal in Israel in 1990.
Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy (1992). Perot, Ross. United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country (1992) Phillips, Kevin. The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath (1992). Sabato, Larry J. Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics (1991).