# 25. Political / organisational tricks ## 25.5. Methodology/Refinements/Sub-species ## 25.5.14. Pawns A pawn is an unsuspecting and unaware person, manipulated by politicians for their own ends. A pawn may be another politician, a community leader, civil servant, a businessman or just an individual citizen. Politicians constantly use pawns to do their dirty work and sometimes take the blame as well. Pawns hardly ever get the credit for services rendered, though.