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A good example and a horrible warning.
Funny thing is "Obamacare" was the nickname conservatives gave to the ACA to try and slander it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"Having lucrative career options, competent officials make unreliable secret police agents, as they are likely to stay passive when the regime is under attack (Zakharov 2016)."
October 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"By contrast, leaders who assign high-performing officials to serve in the secret police must fear that their subordinates will not execute unpleasant orders.
October 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"For example, Alexandru Draghici, the former interior minister of Romania, was well aware that his secret police agents ‘had a fairly low level of training and general knowledge, but that these shortcomings were compensated for by their powerful revolutionary enthusiasm’ (Deletant 2005, 304).
October 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"From the perspective of leaders, underachievers are beneficial because they must diligently work toward the autocrat's interests to retain their career chances.
October 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM