Dictator's Handbook Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics

Name: Dictator's Handbook Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
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ISBN: 9781610391849

ISBN-10: 1610391845

ISBN-13: 9781610391849

Edition: 2012

Authors: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith

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For eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutionizing the study of politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the “national interest”—or even their subjects—unless they have to.This clever and accessible book shows that the difference between tyrants and democrats is just a convenient fiction. Governments do not differ in kind but only in the number of essential supporters, or backs that need scratching. The size of this group determines almost everything about politics: what leaders can get away with, and the quality of life or…

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List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 7/31/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Alastair Smith is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics at New York University.



Introduction: Rules to Rule By



The Rules of Politics



Coming to Power



Staying in Power



Steal from the Poor, Give to the Rich



Getting and Spending



If Corruption Empowers, Then Absolute Corruption Empowers Absolutely



Foreign Aid



The People in Revolt



War, Peace, and World Order



What Is To Be Done?


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index