The Dictator's Handbook
Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Ranked #39 in Power, Ranked #44 in Political Science — see more rankings.
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...
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- #54 in Analysis
- #81 in Diplomacy
- #53 in Game Theory
- #75 in Political Philosophy
- #77 in Politics
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