The Dictator's Handbook: why bad behavior is almost always good politics. New & updated edition. by Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

The Dictator's Handbook: why bad behavior is almost always good politics. New & updated edition.

Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

344 pages first pub 2012 (editions) user-added

nonfiction economics philosophy politics
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turned conventional wisdom on its head. They started from a single assertion: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don't care about the "national interest" -...

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