The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics

Alastair Smith, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita

352 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics informative medium-paced
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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. ...

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