In these countries, you reward your agents heavily when they get you into power. Likewise, when you’re in power, you whack your opposition’s agents. These tools

In these countries, you reward your agents heavily when they get you into power. Likewise, when you’re in power, you whack your opposition’s agents. These tools are just weapons in a political struggle usually. Seeing how the US operates, I believe the same happens here, but in a much more sophisticated manner using tools available for those channels (allocating no-bid contracts, Supreme Court seats, issuing laws to protect incumbents). Unlike the US, where the battle lines are static because defenders are well entrenched, many of these countries have political wars that involve far reaching forays into each others’ territory so they get to whack crucial lieutenants of the other side.