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Defectors say that social control in the country is almost total.
The rise in the number of refugees and defectors is a sign that the state's control over the movement of its citizens is weakening.
The coalition government is trying to secure defectors from opposition parties.

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defector | American Dictionary

defector
noun[ C ]
us/dɪˈfek·tər/
a person who leaves his or her own country or group to join an opposing one

Examples of defector

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It replaces the problem of explaining cooperation with that of explaining punishment of defectors.
It also allowed us to see significant differences in the make-up of the defectors.
If some ten defectors voted against the bills, it would lead to their rejection.
Basically, everyone would like to connect to a cooperator (since this leads to a higher payoff both as a defector or as a cooperator).
We see that defectors obtain a higher payoff, so they have a higher probability of being imitated.
Consequently, at low producer frequencies, the producers have a higher fitness than the non-producing defectors (cheaters are defectors that gain an advantage from defection).
By doing so, the cooperators can generate a new "dialect" that is hard for the defectors to imitate.
Cooperators cannot invade a population of defectors, since a single cooperator would see its payoff reduced to (near-)zero.
This is well illustrated in the case of night fishing being effectively restrained by kadakkodis endorsing fines and other punishments on defectors.
The initial success obtained by few defectors is quickly learned by the other agents, leading to lower and lower payoffs.
And second, they establish graduated enforcement mechanisms to allow potential defectors to learn about the costs of defection without being ostracized (at least, initially).
These are just notations for expressing all possible combinations of contributors and defectors.
Such defectors separate themselves from the body of the brethren.
Can punishment of defectors explain cooperation in social dilemmas?
So the number of defectors will always increase and the population will eventually only consist of defectors.
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