Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 November 2023
Political technology is defined, not as Russians define it as a synonym for politics, but as the 'supply-side engineering of the political system for partisan advantage'. Such manipulation is now common across many types of regimes: deteriorating democracies, so-called smart authoritarianisms and hybrid regimes, but particularly the latter. Manipulation techniques spread through various types of globalisation. Political manipulation can no longer be orientalised: corruption, judicial capture, propaganda and artificial structures to spread it are also increasingly prevalent in the West.
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