{"id":23705,"date":"2024-05-03T07:22:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T05:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=23705"},"modified":"2024-05-03T07:23:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T05:23:48","slug":"transparent-political-systems-and-conspiratorial-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=23705","title":{"rendered":"Transparent political systems and conspiratorial politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[Peter] Reddaway has emphasized that modern Russian political life cannot be understood without reference to &#8222;political technology,&#8220; which represents an extreme form of political consultancy involving manipulation of individuals and large-scale deception. Since, Reddaway explained, at the core of any &#8222;political technologist&#8217;s&#8220; plan, there lies a conspiracy, any good analyst of Russian politics needs to be a conspiracy theorist as well. Conspiracy theorists, he noted, are usually mocked in countries with transparent political systems. But a system becomes more prone to conspiracies if the ruler remains in power for a long time and controls large parts of its wealth. Russia and Iran, he observed, would be two examples of present-day countries with conspiratorial politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;\">\u2014John B. Dunlop, <em>The Moscow Bombings of <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">September 1999<\/span><\/em>, (Stuttgart: <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\"><em>ibidem<\/em>-Verlag<\/span>, <span class=\"\" style=\"white-space: nowrap;\">2012), 17-18<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Peter] Reddaway has emphasized that modern Russian political life cannot be understood without reference to &#8222;political technology,&#8220; which represents an extreme form of political consultancy involving manipulation of individuals and large-scale deception. Since, Reddaway explained, at the core of any &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=23705\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}