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

Smith, Alastair; De Mesquita, Bruce

 
9781541701366: The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1541701364 ISBN 13 : 9781541701366
Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2022

Synopsis

"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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À propos de l?auteur

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita is the Julius Silver Professor of Politics and director of the Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy at New York University. He is the author of twenty-five books, including The Predictioneer's Game and The Invention of Power.

Alastair Smith is the Bernhardt Denmark Chair of International Politics at New York University. The recipient of three grants from the National Science Foundation and author of six books, he was chosen as the 2005 Karl Deutsch Award winner.

They are also the authors of The Spoils of War: Greed, Power, and the Conflicts That Made Our Greatest Presidents.

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Éditeur
PublicAffairs
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1541701364
ISBN 13 
9781541701366
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
400
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9781610391849: The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1610391845 ISBN 13 :  9781610391849
Editeur : PublicAffairs, 2012
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