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$1.99 | The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics (eBook) by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
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Author: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: September 27, 2011
Print length: 401 pages
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"A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority." —Wall Street Journal
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don't care about the "national interest"—or even their subjects—unless they must. As Bueno de Mesquita and Smith show, democracy is essentially 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 misery under them. And it is also the key to returning power to the people.
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Author: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: September 27, 2011
Print length: 401 pages
Great on Kindle: ✅
"A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority." —Wall Street Journal
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don't care about the "national interest"—or even their subjects—unless they must. As Bueno de Mesquita and Smith show, democracy is essentially 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 misery under them. And it is also the key to returning power to the people.
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Previous Frontpage Deal at $2.00 with 98 Deal Score and 13 comments
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Author: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: September 27, 2011
Print length: 401 pages
Great on Kindle: ✅
"A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority." —Wall Street Journal
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don't care about the "national interest"—or even their subjects—unless they must. As Bueno de Mesquita and Smith show, democracy is essentially 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 misery under them. And it is also the key to returning power to the people.
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Author: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: September 27, 2011
Print length: 401 pages
Great on Kindle: ✅
"A lucidly written, shrewdly argued meditation on how democrats and dictators preserve political authority." —Wall Street Journal
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turns conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single proposition: leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don't care about the "national interest"—or even their subjects—unless they must. As Bueno de Mesquita and Smith show, democracy is essentially 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 misery under them. And it is also the key to returning power to the people.
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